We All Need Support
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Our world desire authenticity & community.
Our world desire authenticity & community.
Though we have a bunch of YouTube stars, social media influencers generally speaking people are quick to point out hypocrisy and “fakeness”.
Suffering is inevitable.
Suffering is inevitable.
I wish it were not so. Some of us suffer greatly and others will get through life with minimal pain and suffering.
Exalting Jesus in Job Conclusion
C. S. Lewis was once asked, “Why should the righteous suffer?” He responded, “Why not?” They’re the only ones who can handle it. Even when life loses its luster due to suffering, it is still worth living.
Job helps us persevere in our suffering.
Job helps us persevere in our suffering.
We must be people who walk through suffering as Jesus did so that others will know it is possible and inquiry to how we did it. Our suffering can point people to Jesus.
Our history is part of His Story.
Our history is part of His Story.
I don’t share this as a “cliche” or “bumper sticker theology” but as a way to help us remember our history is part of his story. Jesus does not waste a hurt, pain or season of suffering.
We all need support in this world.
We all need support in this world.
This is the beauty Job is teaching us. Three of his friends come because we all need support. (Image of next slide). “A burden shared is half the burden. A joy shared is twice the joy.”
Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
Our presence will be costly.
Our presence will be costly.
Job’s friends did not just make a quick trip. Some believe that Eliphaz may have traveled up to 100 miles to just be with Job.
We need to join others where they are.
We need to join others where they are.
As we will find out Job’s friends don’t always get it right but here they do.
Our presence is healing.
Our presence is healing.
I say many times at funerals a statement a colleague shared with me many years ago. Silence is needed many times.
If only you would be altogether silent!
For you, that would be wisdom.
People need to be loved not “fixed”.
People need to be loved not “fixed”.
Only Jesus can fix people. Yet, sometimes he does not “fix” our sufferings; as is the case of Job, but instead gives us a greater purpose. Our job is to love people, point them to wisdom as we can, but in the meantime realizing the Holy Spirit can do more than we ever can.
