Hello everyone, welcome to Follow Him Favorites. If you've been following us this year, you

know the routine. John and I take a question from each week's lesson to focus on. John,

this week's lesson is on the book of Job. So the question becomes, I think, really easy

and this is a question that hasn't just been asked by our students, but it's been asked

by all human beings throughout all of time. And that is why suffering. Why do bad things happen

to good people on this planet? So John, if we've got listeners out there who are wondering

that same thing, why is there so much suffering? What would you say? What can I get from the

book of Job and other scriptures that will help me at least maybe now answer this question

completely, but give me some semblance of peace. I love that you said maybe not answer

this question completely because in the book of Job, all these things happen to him. In

a matter of a few verses, he loses everything in chapter one. And the next 41 chapters

are trying to figure it out. Just some amazing things happen. I love that his friends come

up first and they just sit with him. They don't try to explain it. They don't try to

say it. And as soon as they do try to explain it, that's when things kind of actually get

worse. Because they're, well, maybe God's doing this. So maybe God's doing this. And they're

in error. They think, oh, maybe you sinned or you know, that sort of thing. It's such a

good question, such an ancient question. And it comes down to the youth thing. Do you trust

God? There's a purpose in a planet. Will you, will you trust him when you don't have

the answers right away? You know that verse, Hank, that we all love in Abraham 3. What

is it? 2425 that kind of gives a purpose of life type of statement. I will prove them

now here with to see if they will do whatsoever. The Lord their God shall command them. And

I like to add, even when it doesn't make sense. And see if I wonder what Job will do

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