Hey, I'm David Platt. I wrote a book on how to read the Bible, a simple guide to deeper intimacy with God.

I think about Psalm 119, 162. It says, I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil.

There is spoil. There's treasure waiting for you and me every day in God's word, not just so that we know it and understand it,

but so that we know God and walk in love relationship with God.

That's why I wrote this book to help you toward that end.

So I encourage you to pick it up wherever books are sold.

Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

Job chapter 1, verses 20 and 21.

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshipped.

And he said,

Naked I came from my mother's womb and naked shall I return. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away.

Blessed be the name of the Lord. This is one of the most remarkable pictures of worship and confessions of faith in all the Bible.

If you know the story of Job, he's just heard devastating news about how not only his possessions

and riches being totally taken away from him, everything he had.

But everyone he loved, he's just heard that all of his children in an instant have died.

All of them, like I know there's some of you listening right now who know the agony of losing one child,

the thought of losing all of your children in an instant.

And his wife, as we find out in the next chapter, is telling him to curse God.

Job has lost everything, and he bows down on his face in

worship and says, the Lord gave and the Lord is taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

And I read this and I just, I pray that amidst whatever loss I might experience in this world, that God would grant me grace to say in that moment, the Lord gave

and the Lord is taken away.

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