When Life Is Hard - Series: The Book of Job

                                  Series: The Book of Job

                       When Life is Hard

                                     JOB 1-2

Give thanks in everything, 

for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

I Thessalonians 5:18

Job’s Character...

·             He was a moral man.

·             He was a family man.

·             He was a godly man.

Lessons for us... 

Œ Bad things happen to good people. 

A part of Christian maturity is learning to trust God through 

the temporary injustices of this life. 

 Nothing happens to you except what God has allowed. 

Why does God permit hardship/suffering?

ü  Sometimes God permits suffering to mature us.

ü  Sometimes God permits suffering to comfort others.

ü  Sometimes God permits suffering to test us.

Ž Believers can worship God even when they don’t understand what He is doing.

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped, saying: Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will leave this life.

The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Praise the name of Yahweh.

      Throughout all this Job did not sin or blame God for anything.

Job 1:20-22

 The story of faithful suffering gives strength to others.

 Today’s Takeaway: