SERMON | Resilience

B-sides

Job 14:7-9

For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again and that its shoots will not cease.
Though its root grows old in the earth and its stump dies in the ground, 9 yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.

Questions: (1) How was your week?

(2) This book of Job is about a man named Job. He is upright and righteous before God and he loses his wealth, his children and his health. Why do you think his story is included in our scriptures?

(3) When have you lost something important to you?

(4) Who did you talk with to make sense of this loss? (5) Hope is a gift God gives Job in the midst of his suffering. When have you experienced this kind of hope?

(6) Who in your life is suffering right now? Bring their names to mind as you pray this week.
God, we do not understand your wisdom. We do not understand how Job held on to hope in the midst of his great suffering. We pray for your strength and resilience in our suffering. We pray for our friends who are suffering now. Amen.