Week 4 – The Question Suffering Wants to Ask You.

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Week 4 – The Question Suffering Wants to Ask You

Suffering calls our lives into question, not God’s.

“Does Job fear God for nothing? Key Question of Job:

(Job speaking) “Though He slay me, I will hope in Him.” Job 13:15

God can be worshipped through unimaginable suffering when one comes to respect the mystery of suffering instead of insisting that all their questions must be answered. The Job Principle:

“To what end will God use this suffering for His redemption? The Question Suffering Wants to Ask You:

I do not understand this life of ours. But still less can I comprehend how people in trouble and loss and bereavement can fling away peevishly from the Christian faith. In God’s name, fling to what? Have we not lost enough without losing that too? – Arthur Gossip