Sufferings of Job

Main Idea: God can turn our worst days into great blessings.

Question: Can you trust God with your difficult days?

Job 1:1–3 NKJV

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil. And seven sons and three daughters were born to him. Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.

1. God does allow bad things to happen to what we consider good people.

Job 1:3 NKJV

Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.

Jesus is the only innocent sufferer!

2. Job trusted God early on.

Job 1:20 NKJV

Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell to the ground and worshiped.

3. People closest to you can hurt you.

Job 2:9–10 NKJV

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Plus his “friends”

4. We help people best with our time spent rather than the words we say.

Job 2:13 NKJV

So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

Be a good friend who listens more than you have answers

5. Job found a whole new depth to God.

Job 42:1–5 NKJV

Then Job answered the Lord and said: “I know that You can do everything, And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You. You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. Listen, please, and let me speak; You said, ‘I will question you, and you shall answer Me.’ “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You.

God wasn’t afraid of his questions or feelings.

Job didn’t get answers but he got God.

6. God has a way of redeeming the worst of situations.

Job 42:12 NKJV

Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.