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Required Reading

Before Day 2 Job 1-2
Before Day 3 Job 38-42

Memory Verse

3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, —Romans 5:3-4 ESV

Other Relevant Scriptures

2 Consider it a great joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you experience various trials, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing. —James 1:2-4 ESV

12 Blessed is the one who endures trials, because when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. —James 1:12 ESV

12 Dear friends, don’t be surprised when the fiery ordeal comes among you to test you, as if something unusual were happening to you. 13 Instead, rejoice as you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may also rejoice with great joy when his glory is revealed. —1 Peter 4:12-13 ESV

19 The righteous person faces many troubles,
but the Lord comes to the rescue each time. —Psalm 34:19 NLT

Go Deeper

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1. The Book of Job | FRANCIS CHAN
2. Trusting God During Life’s Trials | RANJIT DAVID
3. Fight Back with Joy | MARGARET FEINBERG
4. Fighting Your Battles | Jonathan Evans

Day 1

Reflection Questions

1. Read Romans 5:3-4 and James 1:2-4. What stands out to you about what Paul and James says about adversity? How are they different? How are they the same?
   

2. Think of adversity you experienced in the last few years. Do you agree that it made you more mature? If so, how?
   

3. Thinking back to the adversity you thought of in question two, do you think you would have come to the same maturity without the adversity? Why or why not?
   

Day 2

Scripture Observations

1. Reveal Answer
   things happen to
   Reveal Answer
   people
   

   There was a man in the country of Uz named Job. He was a man of complete integrity, who feared God and turned away from evil. —Job 1:1 CSB
   

2. God knows what we can

   Reveal Answer

   Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil.” —Job 1:8 CSB
   Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited me against him, to destroy him for no good reason.” —Job 2:3 CSB
   

3. God is in

   Reveal Answer

   “Very well,” the Lord told Satan, “everything he owns is in your power. However, do not lay a hand on Job himself.” So Satan left the Lord’s presence. —Job 1:12 CSB
   “Very well,” the Lord told Satan, “he is in your power; only spare his life.” —Job 2:6 CSB
   

4. Reveal Answer
   that we have is from God

   saying:

   Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
   and naked I will leave this life.
   The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away.
   Blessed be the name of the Lord. —Job 1:21 CSB
   “You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said. —Job 2:10 CSB
   

Reflection Questions

1. Read Job 1 and 2 again. Can you relate to any of the adversity that he had to endure? Why or why not?
   

2. Why do you think God allows bad things to happen to good people?
   

3. If God were to allow what happened to Job happen to you, how do you think you would respond? Is it different from how you would hope to respond? Why or why not?
   

Day 3

Scripture Observations

1. God will

   Reveal Answer
   our prayers

   Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind. He said: —Job 38:1 CSB
   

2. We are

   Reveal Answer

   I am so insignificant. How can I answer you?
   I place my hand over my mouth. —Job 40:4 CSB
   

3. Our knowledge is

   Reveal Answer

   You asked, “Who is this who conceals my counsel with ignorance?”
   Surely I spoke about things I did not understand,
   things too wondrous for me to know. —Job 42:3 CSB
   

4. God is

   Reveal Answer

   So the Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned fourteen thousand sheep and goats, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys. He also had seven sons and three daughters. He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch. No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers. —Job 42:12-15 CSB
   

Reflection Questions

1. Does God speak to you in your difficult seasons? If so, how? If not, why do you think that is?
   

2. How have you seen the difficult times in your life be a benefit to others? How has your adversity played a part in God’s bigger plan?
   

3. What does justice mean to you? Do you believe God is just? Why or why not?