Mid-Week Musings

October 9, 2024

Suggested Reading: Job 23:1-12

Dear NBRC Family & Friends,

Of the Bible’s Old Testament characters, Job might be among the most-well known. He’s the guy often remembered as having lost most everything, but who yet kept his faith in God. His oxen and donkeys were carried off. Job lost servants, livestock, his house and children in a storm, and even his health. But the Bible says, “In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing” (1:22). Job is a wonderful example of the reality that sometimes even good and upright people who fear God and turn from evil still experience suffering.

Even though Job remained faithful to God when his faith was tested by God, Job did go through times of struggling with understanding God and His ways. As you prepare for the sermon to be delivered next Sunday morning, October 13, consider the following questions.

1. Have you ever felt as if God was treating you unfairly? Is it wrong to feel that way?

2. Have you ever felt as if God could not be found?

3. Have you ever wanted to “state your case” before God?

4. Do you think Job was wrong in feeling the way he did about God in the above suggested reading? Have you ever felt that way about God?

Even God’s faithful might sometimes feel as if He’s absent. If God seems nowhere to be found, trust that He is present. Be committed and obedient to Him. Remember the words of the psalmist in Psalm 139:1-12.

Pastor Ron

(Next Sunday morning, October 13, the Scripture lesson will be from Job 23:1-12. The sermon title is Where’s God? A congregational meeting will be held following the worship serviced to consider the consistory’s suggestion to reduce the size of the installed consistory to three elders and three deacons, each for a two-year term of service.)