Our Daily Bread Devotional 27 October 2021 – A Purpose in Suffering
Welcome to Wednesday 27 October 2021 devotional of Our Daily Bread titled A Purpose in Suffering written by Sheridan Voysey. This message shall be a blessing to your life and destiny.
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Our Daily Bread Devotional 27 October 2021
Topic: A Purpose in Suffering
KEY VERSE:
I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has. Job 42:7
Today’s Scripture: Job 42:1–9
INSIGHT
“So what you’re saying is, it may not be my fault.” The woman’s words took me by surprise. Having been a guest speaker at her church, we were now discussing what I’d shared that morning. “I have a chronic illness,” she explained, “and I have prayed, fasted, confessed my sins, and done everything else I was told to do to be healed. But I’m still sick, so I thought I was to blame.”
I felt sad at the woman’s confession. Having been given a spiritual “formula” to fix her problem, she had blamed herself when the formula hadn’t worked. Even worse, this formulaic approach to suffering was disproved generations ago.
Simply put, this old formula says that if you’re suffering, you must have sinned. When Job tragically lost his livestock, children, and health, his friends used the formula on him. “Who, being innocent, has ever perished?” Eliphaz said, suspecting Job’s guilt (Job 4:7). Bildad even told Job that his children only died because they had sinned (8:4). Ignorant of the real cause of Job’s calamities (1:6–2:10), they tormented him with simplistic reasons for his pain, later receiving God’s rebuke (42:7).
Suffering is a part of living in a fallen world. Like Job, it can happen for reasons we may never know. But God has a purpose for you that goes beyond the pain you endure. Don’t get discouraged by falling for simplistic formulas. By: Sheridan Voysey
REFLECT: How else do you see the “suffering = sin” formula being used? Why do you think it’s still so prevalent?
PRAYERS:
Great Physician, give me words to heal, not hurt, in times of pain.
Bible in a Year: Jeremiah 12–14 2 Timothy 1
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