🫂 Job 1:21 | Why Have You Forsaken Me?

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And he said, “Naked I came ____ __ mother's ____, ___ _____ _____ _ ______.

The Lord gave, and ___ ____ ___ _____ ____; blessed __ ___ ____ of ___ ____.”

Job 1:21

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We’ve seen how Job clung to faith when everything was taken from him, worshiping God in both gain and loss. But Job’s story ultimately points us forward— to Jesus, who entered our world and experienced ultimate suffering and loss firsthand.

Jesus didn’t shield himself from pain. Rather, he stepped into it for your sake and mine.

After living a perfectly sinless life in complete obedience to the Father, Jesus was unjustly tortured and killed.

The cross shows us a Savior who knows betrayal, loss, and anguish. He even cried out in his own agony:

Those words, so raw and real, remind us that we follow a God who has personally, intimately, and tragically endured suffering.

Jesus knows what it is to feel naked. Jesus knows what it feels to have things taken away. Jesus knows unimaginable tragedy and the ultimate injustice.

BUT because of his suffering, his endurance and his resurrection, our own pain is no longer meaningless.

The cross reframes it. The resurrection redeems it. And the presence of our Suffering Savior meets us in it.

When life is good, Jesus is our reason to give thanks.

When life is hard, Jesus is our reason to hold on. His story doesn’t erase the possibility of suffering on earth, but it does transform it with ultimate hope.

The gospel reminds us that God is not just the giver and taker of blessings — he is the redeemer who took on our suffering so that loss and death would never have the final word.

So whether you stand in joy or grief right now, let your heart declare the same truth Job did thousands of years ago:

Blessed be the name of the Lord.

In loss or gain, we live as people grounded in hope, marked by peace, and shaped by the cross.

And because Jesus has stood with us in suffering, we can stand with others in theirs. We can become people who show up for funerals, bring meals, sit quietly in hospital rooms, and offer presence.

This is what it means to follow the Suffering Servant: we become servants too.

Ask yourself: Who in my life needs someone to simply stand with them right now?

🙏 Pray

Jesus, thank you for entering our pain—not just mine, but the pain of the whole world. Make me someone who carries Your presence into hard places. Teach me to bless Your name in all things, and to be a source of hope for others. Amen.

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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.”

Job 1:21