1. Dealing with Life’s Difficulties Session 2 Why Me?

2. Comparatively Speaking, Job is a Good Person

3. Total depravity means not that at every point man is as bad as he could be, but that at no point is he as good as he should be. - J.I. Packer

4. Comparatively Speaking, Job is a Good Person There’s More Happening in Life than Meets the Eye

5. Comparatively Speaking, Job is a Good Person There’s More Happening in Life than Meets the Eye Faith is the Bridge Over Circumstances that Connects us to Jesus

6. Faith is the Bridge Over Circumstances that Connects us to Jesus -It’s Okay to Express Grief

7. Faith is the Bridge Over Circumstances that Connects us to Jesus -It’s Okay to Express Grief -God Reserves the Right to Answer us in His Time 

8. Faith is the Bridge Over Circumstances that Connects us to Jesus -It’s Okay to Express Grief -God Reserves the Right to Answer us in His Time  -God Does NOT mind our Questions, but there is a Line we must Never Cross

9. Faith is the Bridge Over Circumstances that Connects us to Jesus -It’s Okay to Express Grief -God Reserves the Right to Answer us in His Time  -God Does NOT mind our Questions, but there is a Line we must Never Cross [The Line of Job’s Wife (“Curse God and Die) vs. “In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.”]

10. Comparatively Speaking, Job is a Good Person There’s More Happening in Life than Meets the Eye Faith is the Bridge Over Circumstances that Connects us to Jesus Faith is Expressed Most Profoundly Through Praise

11. Key Verse
And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. 11

12. Comparatively Speaking, Job is a Good Person There’s More Happening in Life than Meets the Eye Faith is the Bridge Over Circumstances that Connects us to Jesus Faith is Expressed Most Profoundly Through Praise There is a “Hedge” Around Those who Honor God