SOAP 35

Scripture

Job 42:1-16

1-6 Job answered God: "I'm convinced: You can do anything and everything.
Nothing and no one can upset your plans.
You asked, 'Who is this muddying the water,
ignorantly confusing the issue, second-guessing my purposes?'
I admit it. I was the one. I babbled on about things far beyond me,
made small talk about wonders way over my head.
You told me, 'Listen, and let me do the talking.
Let me ask the questions. You give the answers.'
I admit I once lived by rumors of you;
now I have it all firsthand—from my own eyes and ears!
I'm sorry—forgive me. I'll never do that again, I promise!
I'll never again live on crusts of hearsay, crumbs of rumor."
7-8 After God had finished addressing Job, he turned to Eliphaz the Temanite and said, "I've had it with you and your two friends. I'm fed up! You haven't been honest either with me or about me—not the way my friend Job has. So here's what you must do. Take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my friend Job. Sacrifice a burnt offering on your own behalf. My friend Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer. He will ask me not to treat you as you deserve for talking nonsense about me, and for not being honest with me, as he has."
9 They did it. Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite did what God commanded. And God accepted Job's prayer.
10-11 After Job had interceded for his friends, God restored his fortune—and then doubled it! All his brothers and sisters and friends came to his house and celebrated. They told him how sorry they were, and consoled him for all the trouble God had brought him. Each of them brought generous housewarming gifts.
12-15 God blessed Job's later life even more than his earlier life. He ended up with fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand teams of oxen, and one thousand donkeys. He also had seven sons and three daughters. He named the first daughter Dove, the second, Cinnamon, and the third, Darkeyes. There was not a woman in that country as beautiful as Job's daughters. Their father treated them as equals with their brothers, providing the same inheritance.
16-17 Job lived on another 140 years, living to see his children and grandchildren—four generations of them! Then he died—an old man, a full life.

Observation

1. How did Job respond to God's correction?
Job admitted that he was in the wrong and then ask God to for give him.

2. What did god say to Job's friends who had offered bad counsel?
He told them to sacrifice 7 bulls and 7 rams.

3. How was Job blessed after suffering such tragedy and loss?
God gave him back everything and then doubled it.

Application

1. How can you keep a right attitude during suffering?
I think if I have good communication with God that he will show me the way out of suffering.

2. Job learned so much about himself and God through the pain he suffered. What have you learned about yourself and about God through your sufferings?
I have learned that God is in control and I need to let him guide me and stop trying to push my way through things.

3. What are some of the blessings that come out of suffering when we are able to keep a grip on our faith?
Some gifts of suffering are: gives you strength, helps us to grow stronger in faith, and helps others to see our faith in God.

Prayer: God please take care of my best friends family as they are putting to rest a loving Man who has had faith in you. May you seat him with you in heaven. Also pray that I stay strong in my faith as I have been having a hard time coming to you God with everything that's going on in my life. Only you know what is best for me. Please show me the way so that I can fallow you. Amen.