We end the week with a question from Isaac who listens to us in his hometown of Nairobi,

Kenya.

Pastor John, thank you, thank you, thank you for your encouragement and APJ 1611.

How does chronic pain glorify God?

I resonate with this episode deeply and I carry those promises for myself.

I have a question concerning the story or the parable of the rich man in Lazarus in Luke 16

versus 19 to 31, specifically about Lazarus.

Please help me make at least some sense of his life.

He lived all of it poor.

He died poor.

It shouldn't bother me, but it does.

I carry neurological, physical and mental disabilities and have for many years as an

invalid, unable to create any life for myself.

I am now 30.

Feel I should have become a productive self-reliant man by now.

I'm not and may never be.

We also don't see a definite purpose or self-will or self-drive in Lazarus's life either.

I also lack those very same things.

How would you motivate a disabled man, disabled nearly to the degree of Lazarus, to not waste

his life as his physical life, waste away?

Well, of course, this is a dangerous thing for me to do to venture to give counsel to someone

whose condition I know so little about, especially when he says, I carry neurological, physical

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