"Why?" | The Writings | Job 1

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🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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No question is as powerful, yet terrifying, as the question posed by the book of Job: "why?" Why does Job love God? Why does Job suffer? Why do we suffer? In today's episode, Jeff shares how Job 1 encourages us to turn our "whys" into worship. Read the Bible with us in 2024! This year, we’re tackling a group of Old Testament books traditionally known as “The Writings”— Psalms, Chronicles, Proverbs, Daniel, Ruth and more! Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Job 1

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:05.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.0	In the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Jeff Parrot. There might not be a more difficult question than the three-letter
0:17.5	inquiry W-H-Y. Why? It's probably the most important question to ask, yet the most challenging to answer.
0:28.0	If you've ever been in the classic interrogation where a young child drills you with the why question on repeat, you know what I mean.
0:36.8	The why question is so important, yet at the same time so elusive, because it brings us to the precipice of our limitations.
0:45.2	It's the final stop in the corridor of our human agency.
0:49.5	Our knowledge and our control they lead us to the why question, yet they can't take us beyond it.
0:55.0	Why? Why am I crushed by the weight of anxiety? Why did my loved one get this
1:01.8	diagnosis?
1:03.6	Why am I still stuck in the dark hole of depression?
1:08.0	Why is this relationship causing so much pain?
1:11.7	Why am I suffering? Why isn't God making this better? Why? The Bible
1:18.8	addresses the why question in so many important ways and places.
1:23.6	Yet one of the most significant areas
1:25.4	where this question arises
1:27.4	is in the Old Testament book of Job.
1:30.0	Job's story is an unsettling one. It makes our minds bend and our hearts ache.
1:36.4	It's a story of suffering that confronts us with the why question in order to introduce us to other even bigger questions.
1:46.3	As we prepare to get into the first chapter of Job,
1:49.1	let's ask for God's presence to be felt in our time together.
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