Questioning God Through Hardship

Well, thank you so much, everyone who's participated in the service so far.

Thank you so much, Charles, for leading us in prayer.

And it's wonderful to see you this morning, folks,

particularly maybe this is your first time or you're visiting Edinburgh.

We're just so delighted that you've taken this Sunday to join us.

And we just hope that you're blessed during your time with us.

Come with me to Job 32.

We're going to try and take in the breadth of these six chapters today.

Some wonderful truths that God has for us in his word.

But as you're turning there, let me tell you about a conversation I had recently.

Our car was faulting a bit.

So I was trading it in this time last year.

And I'm talking to the car salesman, getting to know him a little bit.

We're talking about our families.

We're talking about life.

The stuff had just opened up.

It was last summer again.

We're talking about everything that's been going on.

And we're talking a little bit about our jobs.

And he's asking me about my job.

And I'm telling him about what I do.

Leads to some great conversations.

He's listening to me tell him what I do for a job.

I'm a pastor.

I'm a minister of a local church.

So I ping the question back at him.

And I say, well, mate, how long have you been selling cars?

How long have you been doing this?

And he starts telling me how long he's been doing it.

And then he starts telling me about his former life when he used to be in the army.

And he used to spend a bit of time in the 90s in Northern Ireland during the riots.

So he starts telling me about everything, having learned what I did for a job.

He starts telling me about everything that he went through.

And if I remember the conversation rightly, he says something to me along the lines of,

listen, son, when you've been through what I've been through,

when you've seen the things that I've seen,

do you know what?

I used to believe in that God stuff.

But having been through everything that I've been through,

seen everything I've seen,

how on earth could a good God allow all of that to happen?

So three things go through my mind.

First of all, guys, we need to take really seriously

reaching people with the goodness of Jesus,

who from their own admission will never darken the door of our church.

How can we reach people in our city with the goodness of Jesus?

They ain't going to come to us.

We need to go to them.

Okay, thought number two,

there's some really painful stories that people have in life.

Some big questions about everything that goes on.

Some of you will be sitting here today with your own stories and your own scars

about things that have happened in your own life.

Okay, we're not to duck them.

We have to listen and walk with people through their pain.

And thought number three, as I listened to him,

it occurred to me once again,

that how often is it true, friends,

that when suffering comes, we go through painful times,

whether it happens to ourselves,

whether it happens to other people that we know and love,

it can cause us to ask some really big questions

and begin to doubt the very character of the gods who we claim to know.

Yeah?

So things like in our minds,

does God really love us?

Is God really there?

Is God really fair?

Can this God really be trusted?

Is God really in control?

And if the answer to those questions you think is yes,

then how do you know that?

Have you ever asked those sorts of questions in your life?

I take it we all do in the life of faith,

as we go through life.

Who is this God?

Well, see, as we tap into Job this morning,

here's what I reckon is going on in his mind.

Okay, if you're joining us this morning,

we've been in this book for a number of weeks now,

and we've journeyed with Job and his friends.

Here's what I reckon is going on.

Because of everything that Job has suffered,

compounded with the absolute drivel,

which his friends have offered him as an explanation

as to why those things have happened.

I wonder whether Job started to believe things about God

and question his very character

and wonder why the things are happening to him

the way they're happening.

Okay?

Now, let me just say,

that has been the aim of the devil ever since Genesis 3.

Did God really say?

Which, if you can dig beneath the surface of that question,

underneath it is the subtext, sub-question,

can God really be trusted, right?

What is he hiding?

How can you know God's heart?

Did God really say?

It's been the serpent's light ever since the beginning.

And I reckon,

having spent a lot of time in these chapters this week,

I wonder whether those thoughts are in Job's mind.

And so, enter stage left.

I don't even know whether it's stage left or stage right,

but we're going to stage left, right?

Enter stage left in this drama,

this man called Elihu.

Now, come with me to chapter 32.

This is where we meet him.

This man called Elihu.

Now, just notice the details at the beginning of chapter 32

as we get to know him a little bit.

He's a young guy, okay,

who I think we're meant to understand.

He's been there with Job and his three friends

this entire time.

He's been there, right?

So, he's seen Job's suffering.

And he's heard the three friends offer their unsympathetic

and untrue claims as to why this is happening to Job.

So, he's heard all of this.

And he's heard Job give his defense

in which he's continually pleaded his innocence

before them and before God.

Okay?

So, Elihu's heard all of this.

He's seen all of this.

And now he speaks uninterrupted for six chapters.

And here's my take on him.

And people do see this differently,

but here's my take on him.

I think he's coming on the scene here in the drama

playing an almost prophetic role in the story.

So, he's bringing truth about who God is

to Job's attention and into Job's situation.

Now, let me just give you a few things in the text

that might suggest that

because I think it's important that we kind of wrestle with

what is this character doing in the story.

In the context, it's really interesting

because not only does Job not respond to Elihu's words

like he's done his other friends,

but the very next thing in the story that happens

once Elihu is finished,

end of chapter 37,

as we enter chapter 38,

the very next thing that happens is God speaks.

God speaks.

Which, as a side,

is that not a wonderful testimony to the patience of God?

Because God could have rightly broken in at chapter 3,

couldn't he?

And answered Job and his three friends.

Could have broken in at that point.

But no, God waits.

Graciously, patiently,

seeing and hearing everything that's going on

before giving his response.

You know, we had some friends around recently

who were reflecting on that.

We're 36,

they're around our age as well.

We're reflecting back

on the things we used to do in our 20s

and the things we used to think and say.

How patient is God with us?

We reflected.

As we think back on that,

how patient is God with us?

And do you know what?

We'll be saying exactly the same thing

in 10 years' time.

How patient is this God?

It's interesting when God speaks,

he corrects Job.

You see that next week and onwards.

He corrects Job,

and he certainly corrects the three friends,

gives them a stinging rebuke.

But he's nothing to say to Elihu.

Nothing to say to Elihu,

which again, I think,

might add another weight to the understanding

that he's playing an almost prophetic role here.

Now, two things I want us to see

before we get into what Elihu says.

I want us to see two things

about how he goes about his job.

Okay?

Now, firstly, notice that Elihu's desire

is a godly one.

Okay?

Four times in the first five verses

of chapter 32,

we're told that there were what?

Look for the word.

What's the word?

He's angry.

Okay?

See it?

He's angry.

Now, we immediately can read that

in light of everything that's come,

and we conclude that this guy's

a bit of a hothead.

Okay?

Youth, arrogance,

we put it together

in light of everything that's come before,

and we think that's the case.

But look at verse two.

Why is he angry?

He's angry because he's been listening

to Job and his friends

say things about God

which just aren't true.

So Elihu has a fire in his belly

that this God is represented

and understood rightly.

His desire is a godly one,

and I think his approach

is a humble one.

Look at verse six

of chapter 33.

Just glance at it there.

Speaking to Job,

he says,

I am the same as you

in God's sight.

I too am a piece of clay.

Now he views himself.

He's a piece of clay.

Isn't it a very humbling thing

to say?

Right?

Weak,

fragile,

brittle.

You ever been to

doodles on the meadows there

and make clay pots?

That's what it is,

isn't it?

You mould it.

Fragile,

weak,

vulnerable.

That's what he's saying

about himself.

He's not speaking to Job

from his ivory tower.

He's coming alongside him

as a piece of clay.

And verse seven,

no fear of me

should alarm you,

nor should my hand

be heavy on you.

He's not come to Job

seeking to add burdens

to his life.

He's come to help

and bring truth.

And I take it,

did you see during the Olympics

the gymnasts

who were on the rings?

I love this image.

What is it they do,

the gymnasts?

This is where you see

the biceps.

What do they do?

They grab both rings tightly,

don't they?

Both rings.

And friends,

see when it comes to

our relationships

with one another,

a love for God's truth

and a love for God's people.

Right?

We hold just one of them

and let the other one go,

we will fall.

Okay?

We need to hold

both of those things

when we come to

loving one another.

Take a leaf out

of Elihu's book,

Love for God's truth

love for God's people.

So here's what I want to do

really quickly

in the time that we have left.

I want us to pick me to,

I want to pick out

four truths

that Elihu brings

to Job's attention

about this God

and then we'll try

and bring it together

at the end

to see its central message.

Is that okay?

Here we go.

Okay, here's number one.

Elihu's saying,

Job,

God's grace

is deeper than you think.

God's grace

is deeper than you think.

Here's what I think

Elihu senses

as he looks at Job

and as he listens

to what he's saying.

He senses that Job

as a believer

has begun to think

that God is treating him

like his enemy.

Now,

have a look at chapter 33

and verse 9.

We're going to be

a lot in the text today

because I want you to see

where this is coming from.

Okay?

So verse 9 of chapter 33,

Elihu's quoting Job.

Right?

This is what Job is saying.

I am pure.

I have done no wrong.

I am clean and free from sin.

Yet,

God has found fault with me.

He considers me his enemy.

Do you see that word?

His enemy.

That's how God views me.

And Elihu comes on the scene

and says,

that is simply not true.

That's not true.

Verse 23,

in this you are not right.

God is gracious.

And see where Elihu takes Job.

He takes him to the very fact

that Job knows him as God.

Okay?

Verse 22 onward.

Just see the flow.

God acts to save people

from the pit of their destruction.

You see where he takes him?

This is what this God is like.

This God acts to save people's souls

from the pit.

Okay?

You hear Jesus in the New Testament

talking about the place

of weeping and gnashing of teeth.

He's talking about hell,

isn't he?

This is what this God does.

He saves people from that place.

And God in his grace provides,

verse 23,

a mediator

who will declare them right

in God's sight.

And because of what that mediator does,

has done,

the person who knows God,

verse 27,

because what of God has done,

will sing to others,

I have sinned,

I have perverted what is right,

but I did not get what I deserved.

That's what this God does.

God has delivered me

from going down to the pit,

and I shall live to enjoy

the light of life.

This is the song of the people

who know God is their redeemer.

This is what he has done for them,

and they sing it to the world.

They sing it to others.

And that is the heart of this God,

to save sinners,

graciously.

So Job,

never entertain the thought

that as a believer,

God isn't gracious.

Never entertain the thought

that he is your enemy.

The very fact that you know him

as God,

as provider,

as forgiver,

as redeemer,

is proof of the fact

that his grace is deeper

than you think.

It's wonderful, isn't it,

when we get to the New Testament.

What is,

how did God show his love?

That while we were still his what,

he died for us.

He sent Christ for us.

While we were still his enemies,

we will never be an enemy

in his sight

if our faith is in Christ.

God's grace is deeper

than you think, Job.

It's deeper than you think.

Secondly,

and we'll rattle through these, okay,

God's ways

are fairer than you think.

Chapter 34,

and I think the whole

central issue

in this chapter,

and you could argue

it's the whole issue

of the whole book.

Pick me on that afterwards

if you want.

The whole issue here

is the justice of God.

Is God right

in doing what he does?

And look what Job

is saying,

verse 5.

For Job has said,

I am in the right

and God has taken away

my right.

In spite of my right,

I am counted a liar.

My wound is incurable,

though I am without transgression.

So, Job is accusing God

of being unfair.

And what is Elihu's response

to that?

To underscore

the rightness

and goodness of God

in all that he does.

Travel with me, okay.

Verse 10.

Just see how he does this.

Far be it from God

that he should do wickedness.

Do you see it?

Verse 11.

For according to their deeds

he will repay them.

Verse 12.

Of a truth God

will not do wickedly

and the Almighty

will not pervert justice.

So what he's saying

is that this God,

there is no partiality

with him.

There is no evil

with him.

You're not going to dig

underneath the surface

of God

and find

some impurity there.

No, God is holy

and his ways

are always

right

and his ways

are always

good.

As the saying goes,

friends,

we might not always

see his hand

but we can trust

his heart.

This God

is good.

He's perfectly just.

We might not see it

in this life

but friends,

one day when Christ

returns,

we will.

It's what the Narnians

always say of Aslan,

isn't it?

That all will be right

when Aslan

comes to sight.

You know,

the first song

they sang

at the Keswick

Convention

this year

and it's just finished

was the hymn

Great is Thy Faithfulness.

I've heard

countless churches

up and down the country

who when it came

to the first song

that they were going

to sing

after 16 odd months

of not singing

went for that song.

Great is Thy Faithfulness

because they just,

it's not just wonderful

to be reminded

in song

that God

never changes.

Everything in our world

has changed

and yet this God

never changes.

Great is Thy Faithfulness

O God my Father

there is no shadow

of turning with Thee.

Thou changest not

thou compassions

they fail not

as thou hast been

thou forever will be.

He's got the old English

right there.

He's not going to come

and go

like fashion.

Right?

He's not going to go off

like a pint of milk.

This God

never changes.

He never changes.

And His compassions

will fail not.

God,

Job,

don't think

that God

has changed.

His ways

are fairer

than you think.

And thirdly,

friends,

His purposes

are bigger

than you think.

God is all-wise,

Job.

He's all-wise.

And His wisdom

is just,

it's just so much

greater than ours.

Right?

It's not like

we're in the championship

and He's just one league up

in the Premier League

in terms of His wisdom.

Right?

No,

if God

were to explain

all His ways,

it would be like

a parent

trying to explain

neuroscience

to a toddler.

Right?

It just,

it just can't happen.

It's just on a different

level to us.

His wisdom.

Verse 5 of chapter 36,

I think it's slightly

better than the ESV.

Behold,

God is mighty

and does not despise any.

He is mighty

in the strength

of His understanding.

Verse 22,

God is exalted

in His power.

Who is a teacher

like Him?

And that is a wonderful

truth about this God

that somehow

in His wisdom

He can use even

the most horrific

of things

for His good

purposes.

Look at verse 15.

He delivers the afflicted

by their affliction

and opens their ear

by adversity.

Right?

So this God,

He teaches us things

through the hardships

that I take it,

friends,

you and I

wouldn't have learned

any other way.

and I say that

sensitively

because I know

what people

have gone through

and perhaps you are

going through

right now.

But this God

for us in Christ,

He molds

and shapes

and renews

and teaches

and He has

committed Himself

to us

always

as His people.

What is the promise

Jesus made

right at the end

of the Gospels?

Behold,

I am with you

until the end

of the age.

I've heard so many

of you testify

to me

in my time here

that in times

of horrific pain

and suffering

that you can

honestly look back

and hand in heart

say

that not only

did you come

out the other side

of a horrendous

situation in your life

knowing God

in ways

that you never

thought possible

before

but that through

your story

and your pain

and your experience

God has used it

to help

others.

And honestly

when I get to glory

and they ask me

who were some

of the saints

that encouraged you

along the way?

Friends,

a number of you

will be there.

As I've seen you

just keep on

clinging to God

through your

hardships.

You know,

it was C.S. Lewis

who famously said

God whispers to us

in our pleasures,

speaks to us

in our consciences,

but shouts

in our pains.

And his famous

phrase,

it is his megaphone

to rouse

a deaf world.

God's purposes

are bigger

than you think,

Job.

And finally,

God's power

is greater

than you think.

And in Job's mind

he's saying to himself

verse 3

of chapter 36,

he's saying to himself

what's the point

in trying to be good?

What's the point?

What does he say?

What advantage have I?

How am I better off

than if I had sinned?

So he's saying

what's the point

in being good?

And I think

he's beginning

to believe

the prosperity

gospel lie.

Remember that his friends

have been subtly

sowing all the way.

And it's the inverse

of what his friends

have been saying.

He's thinking that

because I'm following God

surely things

should be going well

for me.

But Elihu comes

in the scene

and he says almost

that that's the wrong way

of looking at things.

Right?

Not to worship God

for his stuff.

Not just to worship God

when things are going well.

Worship him

because of who he is.

And Elihu breaks in

at verse 14

and he says,

I love this,

hear this,

O Job,

stop and consider

the wondrous works

of God.

So look up,

stop what you're doing,

look up

and think about

who God is.

And as we'll see

next week,

there are massive echoes

of what Elihu says here.

Massive echoes

of it in what the Lord

says next chapter.

From verse 16,

right?

Just follow the questions.

Have you journeyed

to the springs

of the sea

or walked

in the recesses

of the deep?

Right?

Rhetorical question.

Have the gates

of death

been shown to you?

Have you seen

the gates

of deepest darkness?

Have you comprehended

the vast expanses

of the earth?

Tell me

if you know

all this.

Friends,

don't let anyone

tell you there's not

sarcasm in the Bible.

He's saying,

isn't he,

rhetorically,

think about who God is.

You know,

we're doing that

on a holiday.

Sitting with the girls

on the beach

just looking at the clouds.

Looking at the shape

of the clouds.

Right?

All these different shapes

doing different things.

And thinking,

wow,

isn't that cool?

But it's not exactly

what Elihu's saying.

Job,

were you there

when the skies

were laid out?

Consider the manifold

power and wisdom

of God.

Who is this God?

You should look up

and consider who he is.

Stop.

Do some of us

need to do that today?

To stop and consider

the wondrous works

of God.

And just notice

where Elihu leaves it

right at the end

of chapter 37.

What does he want

for Job?

It's a great question

to ask as we go

through all of this.

What does he want?

Surely he wants

that Job would stop

and repent

of saying wrong

things about God

and run back

to this God

and know him

as the gracious

God that he is.

Right?

Verse 24

of chapter 34.

Therefore men

fear him.

He does not regard

any who are wise

in their own conceit.

So what is the right

response to knowing God?

The answer here

is fear of the Lord.

Fearing him.

So friends,

big questions in life,

right?

Does God really love us?

Does he really love us?

Is God really fair?

Can God really be trusted?

Is God really in control?

And the question comes,

how do we know?

How do we know?

Friends,

we know

so much more

where we stand in history

because of the

truer and greater

Elihu.

Right?

The prophet,

the word of God

who doesn't just

bring truth

but who is truth.

Grace and truth.

You know,

here's something

I was thinking about

in holidays.

You just see the connections

as you're going through

the gospels

reading about it.

One of my favourite things

in the gospels,

Mark chapter 4.

Mark 4 · chapter mention

Right?

Tucked it at the end

of Mark chapter 4.

Mark 4 · chapter mention

Jesus,

we read it earlier,

on the boat

with his disciples.

Right?

What is happening

in that scene?

The boats are getting

hammered by the waves.

Something like

something out of the North Sea.

Remember that program

Trollerman and BBC?

It's how I always picture it.

The boat getting hammered

by the waves

and you always know

it's a crisis,

don't you?

When the professionals

start to panic.

It's what they always said

about the credit crunch

in 2008,

wasn't it?

When the professionals

start to panic,

that means the rest of us

can panic.

Here's hardened fishermen

in the boat

and they're freaking out,

aren't they?

We're going to die.

We're going to die.

And all the while

they're suffering.

They're looking at Jesus

and what is he doing?

He's sleeping.

He's sleeping.

Can you just get in the boat

with the disciples

asking all sorts of questions

about Jesus,

looking at him,

sleeping,

thinking,

does he care?

Does he know?

Does he see?

Does he love us?

All this stuff

that's come before us,

he's healed people.

Has he spoken to people?

And yet here we are.

Does he care?

All comes together

in their question.

What do they say?

What do they say?

Do you not care

that we are perishing?

Because at the moment

it doesn't look like

any of that stuff is true,

does it?

Being there.

Does Jesus care?

Jesus wakes

and he speaks

three words,

peace,

be,

still.

and the waves

stop

and there's calm

at sea.

Because

and to nick a line

from Elihu,

the one who created

the vast expanses

of the earth,

the one who laid out

the heavens,

the one who laid out

the skies,

the one who knows

the depths,

through whom

all things were created,

is in the boat.

He's in the boat

and here is the creator

bringing order

from chaos

and what happens

to the disciples

as they look at Jesus?

What are they filled

with in their hearts?

They're no longer

looking at the storm.

That's not what

they're scared of.

Fear fills their hearts

as they look at Jesus.

Now I take it

when we think about

fear of the Lord,

what does that mean?

It means

I'm looking at Jesus

and because I know

who he is,

I am taking my eyes

of him

no time.

I am looking at him

and of course

marking the context

it's about trusting

his word.

Here is who this

Jesus is.

That's what it means

to fear the Lord,

surely.

Not to run away

and cower

but to fix our eyes

on him

and trust in him

to go nowhere else.

I'm tying up

my whole life

leaning at all

on who he is.

So friends,

does God really love us?

Is God really fair?

Can God really be trusted?

Is God really in control?

Heaven's answer

to our questions

is a person.

Heaven's answer

to our questions

is Jesus.

You want to know

an answer to him?

Look at him.

Get to know him

in the Gospels.

This is who he is

as God unveils his heart

to us as human beings.

Jesus,

God in the flesh.

And more importantly,

heaven responds

to our questions.

Not just with a person

but particularly

with a person

on a cross.

If you're ever tempted

to think,

friends,

does God really love me?

Look nowhere else

but to Jesus

on the cross.

That's how God

showed his love

for us.

That while we were

his enemies,

Christ died

for us.

Consider the lengths

that he went to

for you.

You are his child

adopted into his family.

Justification,

I love this,

someone put it recently,

justification says

you're right in God's courtroom.

Adoption says

you're welcome

in his living room.

This is who you are.

Have you ever attempted

to ask the question,

do I matter to him

in light of what I've done?

Does he care?

Am I worth anything?

Am I precious in his sight?

Friends,

look at the cross.

He says God's yes,

surely,

to that question.

Have you ever attempted

to think,

is God fair?

Look at the cross

where Jesus bore

all of God's

righteous anger

against our sin

on the cross,

in our place,

didn't just sweep it

under the carpet,

pretend it didn't happen.

Jesus really did die

on a cross

for our real sin.

Have you ever attempted

to ask,

is God in control?

Then surely we have

to look at the cross.

If ever there was

a moment when it looked

like God was not

in control,

surely it was there.

Jesus despised

by his own,

abandoned by his friends,

seemingly powerless,

crucified by his enemies.

And yet,

is it not true

when we look at that,

that God used

the most horrific thing

imaginable

to bring about

the greatest good

that you and I

can ever know?

Friends,

is God powerful?

Is he in control?

Look at Jesus

on the cross.

Paul would call

the gospel,

the power of God

unto salvation.

Friends,

there are some

big questions

and horrible things

that happen in life.

But where does this passage

tell us to run?

Once we close,

let me just tell you

a story about

Corrie ten Boom.

Okay,

taken to the

Ravensbruck camp

in Germany

during the Second

World War

along with her sister

taken there to die.

And when they got there

they were put in a dorm

piled high

with bunk beds

and people.

And her diary,

if you read it,

it goes,

as soon as they got there

they were just

thrown upon

by fleas

everywhere,

started just

devouring their bodies.

You can imagine

the smells

and the sights

that would make

even the strongest

of us here

today sick.

Fleas everywhere.

But the fact

there was fleas

everywhere

meant that the guards

never went near

their dorm.

Never went near it.

Don't want to go

and get bitten

by fleas ourselves

so they never

went near it.

So what the ladies

in that dorm

used to do,

every evening

a number of them

would gather

in a circle

and they would read

from this little

pocket Bible

that Corrie

had somehow

managed to smuggle

into their dorm.

So they'd get together

in this circle

and they used to

read it together.

And they would try

and translate it

into Polish

and French

and German

so that the people

from different places

could understand.

And reflecting

many years later

do you know

what she wrote

in her memoirs

about these little times

as they opened

the Bible?

She said

the blacker

the night around us

she's talking

about the suffering

everything that's

going on

the blacker

the night around us

the brighter

and truer

burned the word

of God.

And the scripture

that they came back

to every single

night

was Romans 8

37

that we are

more than

conquerors

through him

who loved us.

Every night

they came back

to that verse.

So friends

when we're

asking those

big questions

about life

why does God

what's going on

is he in control

does he love us

where are we

to run

we're to run

to the word

of the truer

and greater

Elihu.

Right

we need to

cherish

and respond

to God's word

as it's come

at us

this morning

and fix

our eyes

on Jesus

Christ

and bask

ourselves

in his

great love

for us.

So why don't

we just take

a moment

just as we

finish this

morning

and everything

that's come

at us

I realise

we covered

a lot of

territory

there this

morning

why don't

we just

be still

and let's

bring our

prayers

and our

thanks as

well to

our creator

and then

I'll close

us in prayer

and we'll

stand to

close with

our final

song

but let's

just have

a moment

of quiet

and let's

just allow

God by his

Holy Spirit

to minister

amongst us

this morning

and so

Father we

thank you

Lord for

the

precious

truth

that while

we were

your enemies

Christ died

for us

Lord thank

you Father

for your

commitment

to us

as your

people

that in

Christ

you have

promised

never to

leave us

or forsake

us

and you've

given us

your spirit

to help

us know

that

and so

Father I

pray for

any here

this morning

who are

struggling

in any

way

Father that

you would

be the

comforter

this morning

so Father

we just

praise you

for who

you are

today

and we

thank you

for our

time together

in your

precious word

name we

pray

amen

that

do

nothing

I

want to

do

blah

so

can

do

.

Or

can

maybe

I

do

have

hope

to