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God Is Big Enough: Bigger Than My Suffering
Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010
Pastor Mark Kraft
The story of Job is an amazing story that goes so deeply into the human condition and this is what we are going to look at this weekend as we are learning together about a God who is bigger than our suffering.
A lot of people think the key question in Job is “Where is God when we suffer?” Where is God when we hurt? And that is a huge question. It is not the fundamental question that’s at stake in the book of Job. The key question on the upper stage, the key question really for the structure of the whole book comes in chapter 1 verse 9 when Satan says, “Does Job fear God for nothing?”.
Job could not see the upper stage. Job did not know that his faithfulness had meaning beyond his wildest dreams. Job did not know that something cosmic and eternal was at stake in his little life, in his little time on this stage in his deep suffering. Sitting on an ash heap, scraping boils off his skin with shards of broken, discarded pots—broke, sick, mocked, confused, abandoned, helpless, hopeless, alone. Job’s faithfulness and suffering was being used by God to vindicate God’s whole wild adventure in covenant love. Job’s honesty and perseverance have been used now for thousands of years across the continents, across the cultures, across the language to inspire billions of people who live in the land of Uz.
The Book of Job
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