Trusting God When Life Makes No Sense | Job 42:1-6

Thanks.

Appreciate you.

Thank you.

You are going to suffer.

This is where we all stop and say, thanks, Pastor Clayton, for bringing in the guest speaker to preach the happy sermon.

Thanks, Pastor Clayton.

But I'll say it again.

You are going to suffer.

And I say this definitively for two theological reasons.

The first is we live in a fallen, broken world, a world that was not made for suffering.

So when it broke, suffering is what we now have.

It's kind of the evidence the world is broken.

You're going to suffer because we live in a fallen, broken world.

And the second reason I can say this is because we live in a fallen, broken world that is being healed.

It's being redeemed.

It's being restored through suffering.

Our healer laid down His life to heal us.

You're going to suffer if you walk the way of Jesus.

You've been hanging out with Old Testament folks the past few weeks, learning what we can learn from those lives to help us live our life today.

So today we're walking with Job, and those two things I just told you, neither of them are in the book of Job.

We don't learn either of those things in that book, which is like, really, what? I thought the book of Job told us why we suffered.

Nope, it doesn't.

So what does it do? The book of Job and his story gives us a place to land in suffering.

And it helps us learn how to walk through suffering.

how to endure.