Blessed Be the Name: God in Suffering

I wanna give you this last name because I think it's really important for where we are right now. The last name is that we have a god who is aloha. Aloha, which means he's the god who raises up, the God who has hope for us. And and he uses that name 41 times, only 16 times in the whole rest of the bible, but it's to remind us that even in the midst of our suffering, we have a God who gives us hope. [00:48:26] (39 seconds)  #GodIsAloha

And and what it's bringing across and what you will see Job do with that name throughout is he just accepts it. He's honest with the way things are. It is true. I am suffering, and this is awful. Now Job will get into why are you doing this to me? And the thing that he finds is God says, I'm El Shaddai. I am almighty. I'm bigger than you. I know more than you, and I have a plan. [00:46:32] (27 seconds)  #AcceptanceInSuffering

because God breathed life into us, and his name is Yahweh. So if you pay attention, every breath we take is the name of God. And here in our text, we see Job surrendering through worship, worship to Yahweh. So he's giving praise to God in his worship to the name of Yahweh. The name Yahweh means Lord, and I wanna look in another place to give us a better understanding of God and who he is saying he is in that name Yahweh. [00:44:02] (37 seconds)  #YahwehEveryBreath

But there's one other thing that can happen, and I've seen it happen over and over. It can develop me. God can use it. Notice he he doesn't cause it, but he will use it. He will use that suffering to strengthen us, to to give us a different witness in this world. [00:40:00] (21 seconds)  #SufferingDevelopsYou

See, I I am fully invested in this. Scars speak to scars. Your sufferings that you have been through, when you meet someone else who is suffering, you can speak to them differently than people who haven't dealt with anything in that area. For those of us who have loved one who's taken their life, I can speak to them differently than other people can. For those who have family may have children who have who have ongoing diseases, my family can speak to them in different ways. [00:40:28] (31 seconds)  #ScarsSpeakToScars

This family has hope when we suffer. Tom has hope because he is Jesus Christ. Because Jesus has been lifted up, we will also be raised to new life. That is where our hope really is. This world, it promises suffering and it comes. But we have a God who's overcome every bit of it because he is Lord, because he is almighty, and because he is the God of hope who has given hope to us, to Tom, to his family. This is our God. Amen? [00:57:13] (41 seconds)  #HopeInChristForTom

And and what it's bringing across and what you will see Job do with that name throughout is he just accepts it. He's honest with the way things are. It is true. I am suffering, and this is awful. Now Job will get into why are you doing this to me? And the thing that he finds is God says, I'm El Shaddai. I am almighty. I'm bigger than you. I know more than you, and I have a plan. [00:46:32] (27 seconds)  #ElShaddaiRevealed

And and what it's bringing across and what you will see Job do with that name throughout is he just accepts it. He's honest with the way things are. It is true. I am suffering, and this is awful. Now Job will get into why are you doing this to me? And the thing that he finds is God says, I'm El Shaddai. I am almighty. I'm bigger than you. I know more than you, and I have a plan. [00:46:32] (27 seconds)  #JobAcceptsReality