HOW SHOULD I RESPOND TO SUFFERING? (9 OF 10)
by Jim Perdue
Scripture: Job 29, Job 30, Job 31
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How Should I Respond to Suffering? (9 of 10)
Series: Job
Jim Perdue
Job 29-31
Intro/Attention
This morning, we come to Job 29-31 in our sermon series through the book of Job. We have already seen how Job's story teaches us that sometimes, bad things happen to good people. And sometimes we experience suffering, grief, and loss and can't seem to find the answers to make sense of our suffering.
Today, I want to dive down a bit deeper and ask an important question: How Should I Respond to Suffering? What should your response be when you walk through sorrow, difficulty, and pain? How should we respond to loss and grief? Job helps answer this question in chapters 29-31. First, Job looks back, READ 29:1-6. Then, Job looks around at his current situation and gives an honest assessment, READ 30:16-23. Finally, Job makes his ultimate appeal and asserts his righteousness integrity, READ 31:5-8.
*In his widely read book, The Grace Awakening, Charles Swindoll writes about attitude, ''The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude is more important than the past, than education, money, circumstances, failures and successes and much more than what other people think, say or do.'' He goes on to write that neither our appearances, giftedness, skills do not impact our lives as much as our attitude. Our attitude unlike other facts in our lives is something we can control and if necessary change each and every day of our lives depending on what we are facing that day. We cannot change our past, predict our future, change how others act and react towards us; in other words these are matters beyond our control-we cannot change the inevitable. As Swindoll writes, ''I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.'' We are all in charge of our attitudes.*
That's what we're talking about today; how to respond to suffering. If life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react, then ...
Series: Job
Jim Perdue
Job 29-31
Intro/Attention
This morning, we come to Job 29-31 in our sermon series through the book of Job. We have already seen how Job's story teaches us that sometimes, bad things happen to good people. And sometimes we experience suffering, grief, and loss and can't seem to find the answers to make sense of our suffering.
Today, I want to dive down a bit deeper and ask an important question: How Should I Respond to Suffering? What should your response be when you walk through sorrow, difficulty, and pain? How should we respond to loss and grief? Job helps answer this question in chapters 29-31. First, Job looks back, READ 29:1-6. Then, Job looks around at his current situation and gives an honest assessment, READ 30:16-23. Finally, Job makes his ultimate appeal and asserts his righteousness integrity, READ 31:5-8.
*In his widely read book, The Grace Awakening, Charles Swindoll writes about attitude, ''The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude is more important than the past, than education, money, circumstances, failures and successes and much more than what other people think, say or do.'' He goes on to write that neither our appearances, giftedness, skills do not impact our lives as much as our attitude. Our attitude unlike other facts in our lives is something we can control and if necessary change each and every day of our lives depending on what we are facing that day. We cannot change our past, predict our future, change how others act and react towards us; in other words these are matters beyond our control-we cannot change the inevitable. As Swindoll writes, ''I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.'' We are all in charge of our attitudes.*
That's what we're talking about today; how to respond to suffering. If life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react, then ...
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