Bible Study: the Book of Job

This is overwhelming and it's so appreciated. You have no idea. For the people who are watching our video today, this is in one week asking who we would be able to get together for a Bible study so that we could get this 5 minute video up to the Army Chaplaincy Board. So this was the turnout and we have got about 20 people and that's just absolutely phenomenal. Tonight we are going to study the book of Job. I am Shelly Rood, or the military knows me as Shelly Reed. That is my legal maiden name. When I do public speaking that's not military related, I use my maiden name of Rude. One of the most famous joke quotes. My ears had heard of you, but now my eyes have seen of you. Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes. And we're actually going to touch on this quote a little bit deeper because it might not mean what you actually think that it means at first glance. The resources that we're using today is coming from two main. The first is a book called Work Matters Lessons from scripture by a 20 mile trip for me is nothing. I get in my car, the heat is on, the air conditioning's on, I got my music right, I'm just gonna go down the road, get a few groceries and come right back. A 20 mile trip is nothing. But back in biblical times, a 20 mile trip is something that could have been a life or death situation. Neither the name of the writer of the book of Job nor the date of the composition is actually revealed. Suggested authors include Job himself, Elihu, which is he gets visited by three friends and then a fourth. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for the rights and, and the blessings of all of the wonderful people in this room with us today. We ask that you guide our hearts, open them to be available to the possibilities of what you might bring into our lives. We ask that the words spoken today are through comfort and honest learning and questioning so that we might grow closer to the path that you have laid before us. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. I love this interaction with Job's wife and I love, as you guys are seeing with the different versions of the Bible, the different ways that they've been interpreted over the years. It's easy to get a couple different things out of it, right? Why do bad things happen to good people? That's a very common kind of layman's level assumption of what the book of Job is about. But Dr. Meyer Koch takes that and suggests one level further and he says that it's not necessarily about why do bad things happen to good people? It's about, why do righteous people worship? And he's like, how dare you? Who are you? How would you feel? I'd be like, oh, I'm so sorry. So this is Job, right? He's freaking out. He's like, oh, my eyes have heard of you, but now my eyes eventually see, right? And so this phrase, therefore I despise myself. There's multiple interpretations of that word, despise. So who has a different version? Abhor. I abhor myself. And that song has personally touched me at a time when I just felt very conflicted about something and I needed resolution, right? And that song came on and it was. It's literally God saying, just give me a little bit more time and everything will be alright. This too shall pass. Now I hear that song and I think back to that moment and I was like, girl, what were you even worried about? Until the next one comes up, you're like, you know me well. Thank you all. Thank you. Before I let you go, we're gonna close and prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you so much for bringing this wonderful group of people together. Thank you for giving us your breathing, living word of God so that we have some sort of standard and guideline to live through. Thank you for the faith that you place in us. We know that we're fallen and we know that we're sinful and we know that we question you when we shouldn't. We ask for the peace in our lives, to trust in you, that you will pull us through everything, even in those moments where we feel like just maybe you won't help us to get over ourselves and genuinely believe that you've just got us, you've got us in your hands and everything's going to be alright. I do ask that you please keep these wonderful people safe on their travels from here. Tonight it is snowing. And while we love the snow, it can be a little bit dangerous. Bless their homes, bless their families. Please don't allow Satan to test them at this point in their lives. But if they must, then help them to just look back towards you. And all this in Jesus name we pray. Amen.