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8 Lessons from the Book of Job

1. Suffering has meaning (Job.23:10) 2. Mourning is not despair (Job 6:10; 7:6; 14:7; 19:10; 13:15) 3. Bad theology never glorifies God (Job 4:15; 8:8; 15:10) (spiritual privilege, tradition, experience are not the bases) 4. Silence comforts more than words or speech (Job 16:2; 13:5) 5. It’s before God that a man stands or falls. (Job 13:1-4; Rom.14:4) So stay focused on Him. Job didn’t give in to the counsel of his friends 6. We only know the outskirts (edges) of His ways (Job 26:14) 7. God knows and God cares (Job 38-41) 8. God doesn’t write tragedies - He never made a piece of junk - He never designed failure