Announcements
1. Please say a special prayer for Guy Snodgrass and his family who are being moved from his base in Japan back to the USA while Guy remains with two other officers to close the base.
2. Our Lenten Bible study will begin Tuesday at noon. The study is on the second half of Romans and will look at what it means to be in Christian community. Bring a lunch and come join us.
Scripture
Job 2:1-10 (ESV)
Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord. [2] And the Lord said to Satan, "From where have you come?" Satan answered the Lord and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it." [3] And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason." [4] Then Satan answered the Lord and said, "Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life. [5] But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face." [6] And the Lord said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life." [7] So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. [8] And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes. [9] Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die." [10] But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
John 9:1-9 (ESV)
As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. [2] And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" [3] Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. [4] We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. [5] As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world." [6] Having said these things, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud [7] and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing. [8] The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?" [9] Some said, "It is he." Others said, "No, but he is like him." He kept saying, "I am the man."
Questions
“Why Do Good People Suffer?” Knots of Faith #2
1. What physical ailment do you fear suffering from the most?
2. What question did Jesus’ disciples ask Him about the blind man’s condition?
3. Why had this man been born blind?
4. How should we respond when trouble comes?
5. Why is it easy to accept good from God but not trouble?
6. With what condition were you born so that God might be glorified?
7. Through what disability or weakness can you glorify God?
8. What work has God given you to do while you still have time?
9. What is one thing you can change about how you respond when bad things happen?
