·    How you think about God determines how you respond to a crisis.
·       How you think about life, how you think
about God determines what you build.
·       Do we worship God because of what he does for us or because we love him?
·       Just because a person speaks in God’s name, doesn’t mean they are speaking for God.
·       Job 42:7 7 After the Lord had said these things
to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.
·       Wrong thinking about God is dangerous! 
·      Job 4:7-8 -7 “Consider now: Who, being innocent,
has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?8 As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.
·       Suffering does not equal “You deserve it.”  
·      Consider: Instead of “You deserve it,” say “I don’t know why.”
·       Job 5:8 - 8 “But if I were you, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before him.
·      Beware of thinking you knowing how God will answer prayers
·       Consider: Instead of saying “Pray (and I know how God will answer),” say “God, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
·      Job 5:17: 17 “Blessed is the one whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.”
·      Beware of thinking suffering equals God’s correction. 
·       Consider: Instead “Suffering is good for you,” think
“Where is God at work in my suffering
·      Job 8:3-4 - 3 Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?4 When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
·      Beware of simple cause and effect theology
·      Consider: instead of judgment, understanding.
·      Job 11:5-6 - 5 Oh, how I wish that God would speak, that he would open his lips against you6 and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom
has two sides. Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.
·       You deserve more suffering than what you are going through.
·      Consider: Instead of you getting what you deserve, God gives grace
·       Job 35:13-14 - 13 Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.
14 How much less, then, will he listen when you say that
you do not see him, that your case is before him and you must wait for him,
·      God is too big to bother with you. 
·       Consider: Instead of “God is too big to care about
you,” remember “God cares for the sparrows.” 
·       Matthew 6:26 - 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet
your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 
·      Job 13:1-4 - “My eyes have seen all this, my ears have heard and understood it.2 What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.3 But I desire to speak to the Almighty and to argue my case with God.4 You,
however, smear me with lies; you are worthless physicians, all of you!
·      To seek God is better than just talking about God.
·      Has your faith grown? 
·       There is a God who loves you and wants you to be his child. 
 Starter : Have you known a person whose faith was not big enough for the crisis in his or her life? 
How did they get through the crisis? 
1.     Read Job 4:7-8.
2.    In your opinion, how can you distinguish between suffering a person deserves versus suffering a person does not deserve?
3.     Read Job 8:3-4
4.     Have you ever seen someone “blame the victim?” 
Why do you think someone might do this?
5.      Read Job 11:5-6
6.      The phrase “God has even forgotten some of your sin” implies you deserve more suffering than you get.  How would you respond to someone who thinks like that? 
7.      Read Job 35:13-14.
8.      How does the life and ministry of Jesus refute the idea that God is too big to notice us?
9.     Read Job 13:1-4
10.  Why do you think Job speaks these words?  Why does he call his friends “worthless physicians?

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