Known as the three “D’s” of distress death, divorce, and disease can slice through our lives like a storm of sorrow, raising doubts and destroying dreams.<\/p>\n
For example, in a short period of time, Job lost his children, his health, his wealth, and his wifes respect (Job 1:1-22; Job 2:1-13). Jobs distress was so great that he pleaded:<\/p>\n
\n“May the day perish on which I was born<\/strong>” (Job 3:3).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Job wanted God to erase all memory of his existence. He had enjoyed years of success and respect Now, he questioned his very purpose for living (Job 3:20; cf. Jeremiah 20:18).<\/p>\n
Job wanted to die and be forgotten, but instead God made sure his name and story would be preserved and remembered for future generations (James 5:10-11).<\/p>\n
Rather than give Job what he asked for, God gave future generations an inside look at the spiritual battle between God and Satan. The result is a God-inspired book about suffering that has comforted countless people throughout the centuries.<\/p>\n
Looking at the example of Job, we understand that if some adversity actually happens to us God can turn it around use it for good (Romans 8:28; cf. Job 42:10).<\/p>\n
Praise God for His mercy and grace in our time of great need! (Hebrews 4:16; cf. 2 Corinthians 12:7-10).<\/p>\n
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Known as the three “D’s” of distress death, divorce, and disease can slice through our lives like a storm of sorrow, raising doubts and destroying dreams. For example, in a short period of time, Job lost his children, his health, his wealth, and his wifes respect (Job 1:1-22; Job 2:1-13). Jobs distress was so great … Continue reading “God Can Use Our Distress For Good – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}