"Comforter" #2

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 Today it is Bildad the Shuhite who speaks to "comfort" Job.

Bildad basically says what Eliphaz has said except with much more intensity.

Bildad's charge is that Job is still suffering because he will not admit his sin. 
(See Job 8:2) 

Like Eliphaz, Bildad wrongly assumed that people only suffer because of their sins. Bildad was even less sensitive and compassionate, saying that Job's children died because of their wickedness.
(Life Application Study Bible note)

Jesus addresses a similar issue with his disciples.

My favorite story is in John 9 about the man who was born blind.

Rabbis developed the principle "there is no death without sin, and there is no suffering without iniquity" They were even capable of thinking that a child could sin in the womb or that its soul might have sinned in a pre-existent state. They also held that terrible punishments came on certain people because of the sins of their parents. 
(NIV Study Bible Note)

Jesus answered that neither was the case.

Jesus replied, "This happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life."
(John 9:3)

So...

If you are going through a tragedy, have gone through a tragedy, or will go through a tragedy... 

If you know someone who is going through a tragedy, has gone through a tragedy, or will go through a tragedy...

Remember...

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.



NIV QUIET TIME BIBLE

  • Notice that Job's friends talk about God, but Job talks to God. How does Job characterize God (9:1-13)?
  • Why does Job feel it is becoming pointless to complain to God (9:14-20)?
  • Why is it equally pointless to put on a happy face (9:27-31)?
  • What does Job feel is wrong about his God (9:32-35 and 10:1-7)?
  • In none of his petitions does Job ask for his sickness to be cured. Describe what it is he wants from God.
  • In what ways has Jesus Christ made Job's deepest dream a reality?
  • When tragedy strikes what difference does it make to know that God has come in the flesh (John 1:14)?

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