Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

What you're experiencing is a result of some sin in your life.

And thus begins

Unhelpful counsel that Job will receive throughout this book and

Part of that counsel, part of the core of it is this idea that the upright don't suffer if you trust God and

and follow God

Then things go well for you clearly if things are not going well for you

And that means you're not trusting God. You're not

Following God. You're not pleasing to God and yet

Job one and two this book

Goes out of the way to show this has nothing to do

With sin in Job's life. It's actually the opposite. This has everything to do with righteousness

in Job's life

And so we see from the very beginning of the book of Job

From the story and Job one and two and now this counsel and Job four that's suffering

While sometimes follows sin in our life. There's no question the Bible teaches

There are consequences of sin and sin leads to suffering in our lives

But that does not necessarily mean that suffering we experience is a direct result of some specific sin in our lives

And so it's good. It's good when we walk through

difficulty

It's good when we walk through suffering to stop and

Examinate our hearts, but in the same way we should examine our hearts every day

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