Today we started out class reviewing the things we talked about yesterday. We did an abstract exercise at the beginning of class as each student came up with some type of a connection between Job and lemon bars. As we moved in to our lesson, we read about the things which Job struggled with - in one day all of his wealth as well as his children were taken from him. We looked at his response - the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. We then read in chapter 2 how he was plagued with a disease and with boils... his wife encouraged him to curse God - his response was - the Lord gives good and the Lord gives evil.
The students spent some time in chapter 3 looking for parallelisms - which they did a great job with. They were able to identify some of them, and then we were able to figure out what the main point or theme was of each one.
We talked about the scripture that says that Happy is the man whom the Lord chasteneth (chapter 5 or 17?). We talked about whether or not we are happy when we are being chastened and how we can look at things from a positive perspective or not - it is our choice.
We saw how both Job's wife and his friends condemned him, invited him to curse, or told him he needed to repent - they didn't really support or help him..
Finally, we looked at our scripture mastery - Job 19. Job explains that even though worms destroy his flesh (which I believe they were literally doing), it didn't matter. Job knew that Jesus Chris is his Savior. It didn't really matter to Job what happened to him or his body in his life - even if it was painful and awful (which it was and he wished he'd never been born at one point) He KNEW that his Redeemer lives and that one day, he would be resurrected and stand before the Lord. This was the thought and the hope which got him through everything.
After discussing this, I handed out different quotes to the students regarding adversity. Each student used their topical guide and found some scriptures which went along with their quotes. Each student then shared their quote - their related scripture, and shared their thoughts about it with the class.
Tomorrow we will begin Psalms - 1-24
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