You'll Get Through This by Max Lucado
Week 6: Chapter 5 — What to Do With Your Disappointments
Read Chapter 5 of You'll Get Through This. Primary Scripture: Genesis 40:23; Lamentations 3:22–26.
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The cupbearer forgot Joseph — and for two full years, nothing changed. Lucado uses this agonizing silence to address one of our deepest fears: that God, too, might forget.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Genesis 40:23 says simply: 'Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.' Two words: he forgot. Lucado calls this one of the most painful sentences in the Bible. Why does being forgotten hurt so profoundly — perhaps more than being actively hurt?
2.Joseph waited two full years after the cupbearer's release before anything changed. Lucado reflects on what it is like to be in a season where you pray, you trust, you wait — and the calendar pages just keep turning. What is your relationship with waiting? Does it feel like faithfulness or like foolishness?
3.Lucado distinguishes between disappointment in circumstances and disappointment in God. Have you ever felt genuinely disappointed in God — not just in your situation, but in him? How did you handle that honestly?
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