#548 – Blessed be the Name of the Lord (Job 1:20–22)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 8 February 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Let's pray for grace to respond to sorrow and sadness with worship. Through Christ, we know that even death does not have the final say. May we worship in the face of sorrow and death. Explore more content from Radical.

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0:00.0	Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:05.8	Job chapter 1, verses 20 through 22.
0:09.6	Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head
0:14.6	and fell on the ground and worshipped.
0:18.3	And he said,
0:20.6	Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken
0:28.6	away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. And all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrong. Wow. These, these verses are humbling, overwhelming, encouraging, challenging, startling.
0:57.1	I could just go on and on.
0:58.5	Like, how do you respond like this
1:00.9	when you lose most everything you have?
1:07.1	Well, all these possessions in Job 1 are taken away,
1:10.5	and then far more important Well, all these possessions in Job 1 are taken away.
1:20.7	And then, far more important, far more sorrowful than all those possessions put together. To hear news that all of your children have died?
1:27.3	Like, how do you respond to that? And the Bible tells us,
1:32.3	Job in sorrow fell on the ground and worshipped. And he blessed God, saying the Lord gave and the Lord
1:42.8	has taken away. This is, response I pray for in my life
1:50.4	whenever I face tragedy in the future. I don't know what that means. I don't know.
1:59.6	Try not to imagine what that could mean, what this would look like in my life. But I do pray for grace to be able to respond like this. I pray for a heart that is so thankful for God's blessing that when that blessing is taken away, I still look to God as the one who gave
2:23.5	that gift in the first place, who is worthy of worship from me.
2:30.0	And I don't think, I don't think these are trite words.
2:33.7	This is not saying this was easy for Job.
2:36.0	Like this was hard for Job, unimaginably hard.
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