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The Story of Job
This week’s lessons are all about disasters in a personal as well as a community context and how we cope and prepare. These lessons begin with the well known story of Job.
Watch the following YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GswSg2ohqmA
He refused to let God go in the midst of difficulty and grief.
Prayers of lament may look like prayers of complaining, but they can still be prayers of faith, because this type of prayer refuses to let God go even in the hard times. God may seem absent, but He is not. Prayers of lament are honest before God and bring us face to face with Him as we try to understand what is going on in our heart. Job was one who prayed deep prayers of lament. He had lost everything—his family, friends, home, and health. Yet he wrestled through with God and clung to Him as he sought for meaning to his struggles. He held onto His faith in God and turned to Him with all his heart. He wanted to see God in the midst of his pain. Job did not let God go. He said:
I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eye—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me! - (Job 19:25-27)
In the end God gave him back so much more. Job was able to see God in a far deeper way than before his trial. Not letting go and bringing our heart to God in the midst of pain is an act of faith. Well-known musician, Michael Card tells us how we can learn faith from Job’s prayer of lament:
“Finally, we see in Job one of the most fundamental lessons we can learn from lament: that protesting and even accusing God through the prayers of lament is, nevertheless, an act of faith. The lament of faith does not deny the existence of God. Rather, it appeals to God on the basis of his loving kindness, in spite of current conditions that suggest otherwise. Job simply would not let go of God—in spite of death, disease, isolation, and ultimately, a fear that God had abandoned him.”
Discuss why Job never gave up.What human characteristics did he show? What can we learn from him?
Direct students to write their own prayer of lamentation and accompany them to the Chapel to pray silently their individual prayer. It’s an opportunity to reflect on the changes they are undergoing, the international crisis affecting the refugees in Myanmar, even their own misgivings over personal circumstances. Here’s some instructions (from the site above)-
Watch the following YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GswSg2ohqmA
He refused to let God go in the midst of difficulty and grief.
Prayers of lament may look like prayers of complaining, but they can still be prayers of faith, because this type of prayer refuses to let God go even in the hard times. God may seem absent, but He is not. Prayers of lament are honest before God and bring us face to face with Him as we try to understand what is going on in our heart. Job was one who prayed deep prayers of lament. He had lost everything—his family, friends, home, and health. Yet he wrestled through with God and clung to Him as he sought for meaning to his struggles. He held onto His faith in God and turned to Him with all his heart. He wanted to see God in the midst of his pain. Job did not let God go. He said:
I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eye—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me! - (Job 19:25-27)
In the end God gave him back so much more. Job was able to see God in a far deeper way than before his trial. Not letting go and bringing our heart to God in the midst of pain is an act of faith. Well-known musician, Michael Card tells us how we can learn faith from Job’s prayer of lament:
“Finally, we see in Job one of the most fundamental lessons we can learn from lament: that protesting and even accusing God through the prayers of lament is, nevertheless, an act of faith. The lament of faith does not deny the existence of God. Rather, it appeals to God on the basis of his loving kindness, in spite of current conditions that suggest otherwise. Job simply would not let go of God—in spite of death, disease, isolation, and ultimately, a fear that God had abandoned him.”
Discuss why Job never gave up.What human characteristics did he show? What can we learn from him?
Direct students to write their own prayer of lamentation and accompany them to the Chapel to pray silently their individual prayer. It’s an opportunity to reflect on the changes they are undergoing, the international crisis affecting the refugees in Myanmar, even their own misgivings over personal circumstances. Here’s some instructions (from the site above)-
- Find a quiet place with God - Being alone with Him is a necessity for this kind of prayer.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you - He will lead you in a prayer of lament. He will open up your heart to God.
- Be in God’s presence - We are often so much in a hurry but a prayer of lament takes time spent in God’s presence. Give yourself wholly to God.
- Write down the “though”circumstances in your life - What difficulties and challenges are you right now facing? What pain or grief do you feel? These are the “though” circumstances.
- Offer these things to God - Offer God the hard things as a sacrifice. Don’t ask for anything.
What is the difference between a hazard and a disaster?
A natural hazard is an extreme event that occurs naturally and causes harm to humans – or to other things that we care about, though usually the focus is on humans (which, we might note, is anthropocentric).
A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other geologic processes.
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Brainstorm some natural disasters/ geomorphic hazards
Discuss in PAIRS, one of the hazards and create a hazard profile using the following questions:
- Where does this kind of hazard occur?
- What causes the hazard?
- How much warning is there?
- What sort of damage does it do to people and the environment?
- How are different people (eg school child, subsistence farmer, day labourer, transport worker, large business operator) affected? Who would be most affected?
- Why might people live in an area affected by this type of hazard?
- How could people prepare for this type of disaster?
Share the hazard profiles with others in your class and discuss how the hazards can be categorised (eg cause, length of warning, impact, cost of recovery).
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