Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another morning with the masters.

We're devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

Good morning, you guys.

Good morning, everyone.

We are picking up with day two of our the struggle

is real how to walk with someone who is hurting devotional in the Bible app there's a link to that

in the description of the podcast if you guys want to follow along with us and as always I'm

going to read the scripture then Tori's going to pick up with the Devo let's do it the

scripture is Job chapter 4 verse 8 and it it says this, my experience shows that those who

plant trouble and cultivate evil will harvest the same.

The devotional is titled, You Never Know.

And it says this, when Aliphaz, Bildad, and Shofar saw their friend Job in pain. They sat down and grieved with him at first.

What they could have seen as an opportunity to encourage Job turned into a chance to fill

in the blanks of Job's situation with their own assumptions. From Job 4 to Job 37, that's over 30 chapters, Job's friends went back and

forth listing reasons they believe Job was going through this incredibly hard season.

Long story short, they claim Job must have committed some terrible sin and was being punished.

Not exactly the type of encouragement you hope to receive from the people you call friends.

When we assume bad things only happen to bad people and let that belief guide our interactions,

we actually bring more hurt than help.

Even though we might have good intentions,

all our friends and loved ones will hear is our judgment. We must avoid filling in the gap

between someone's grief and our limited understanding with our own ideas. The crazy thing about

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