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Job Responds Can I believe God when life doesn’t make sense? Can I trust God when I can’t explain Him? Why should I serve God? Is God enough? Job 31:35 Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary! Job 38:1-3 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.   

Can you explain my creation? Can you control my creation? Can you conquer my creation? Job 41:33-34 “On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear. He sees everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride.” Job 37:22b-24 God is clothed with awesome majesty. The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate. Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.

Job 42:1-2 Then Job answered the Lord and said: “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.” We may not understand God’s ways. We cannot prevent the purposes God has for us. Job 42:3-6 ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. ‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.’ I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” Psalm 30:18 This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him. Job 42:7-8 After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.” Eliphaz—experience—You sinned! Bildad—history—God is just! Zophar—dogmatist—repeated the theme Suffering is not always the result of sin. Sometimes God uses suffering to protect and teach us. (2 Corinthians 12:7-10; Hebrews 12:3-11) Job 42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job's prayer. Part of making things right with God is making things right with others. Job 42:10-17 And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold. And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. He had also seven sons and three daughters. And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch. And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.And Job died, an old man, and full of days.

God is the one writing the chapters of our life. And he uses everything to cause us to know him better and understand him in a deeper way. Job 42:5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you. James 5:11 Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful. Is God Enough? YES! When God is all you have, God is all you need.