JOB 3 - 15th March 2026

Good morning.

>> Please take your Bibles

and open them up to the book of Job.

Please take your Bibles and open them up

to

the book of Job.

My mic is quite loud and I am going to

get louder. So, you might want to turn

it. Yeah, perfect. Okay. I just know

myself. This is it's going to be how it

is. Um, please take your Bibles. Job

Job 3 · chapter mention

chapter 3.

I'm going to pray and ask for the Lord's

help. Let's pray together.

Lord, thank you for uh what we have been

singing that we will trust in you. we do

not know uh the pathway going forward in

our lives. Sometimes we don't know even

all that is going on or all that is

taking place. Sometimes we do not

understand.

Uh but Lord, we say we will trust in

you.

So help us do that this morning. Help us

to trust in you as we hear your word

together.

In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

The passage we are going through this

morning, I just want you to let you know

it's probably the most nonmother's day

passage there is in the Bible. Um, and

so just just letting you know that uh

this is this is where it is. So, so why

would you why would you preach this

passage? Uh, the reason we're preaching

the passage is because it is the next

passage. Um, and I'm sure and I know the

mothers here wouldn't want me so much

talking about them, but talking about

God. Uh, so that's what we're going to

do uh this morning. We're going to talk

about the Lord.

And as we consider this verse or this

chapter and what's going on in this

chapter,

um I think the children in the room

might actually know a bit of what's

going on in this chapter. The reason I

say that to the children in the room um

is this. I wonder if something like this

has happened to you children. Now, the

adults will have seen this happening,

but I wonder if the children remember

something like this happening.

You're running

or doing something very active

and you fall and you hurt yourself

really badly. Does that happen to any of

the children in the room? You're

running, you're doing something really

active, you fall and you hurt yourself

really badly. Does that happen to any of

the children in the room? Well, here's

what happens sometimes when you fall and

you hurt yourself really, really badly.

What happens is you're first shocked.

And you're shocked so much that you

don't actually scream. It's kind of like

this.

And then comes the crying and the

shouting. Has that ever happened to you?

And parents, you've kind of seen that

moment. Something happens to the kid.

They hit something and you're all

looking back going and everybody's

waiting and it's quiet

and then comes the crying and the

shouting. That happened to me when I was

in primary school. I was running in in

St. Luke's

uh playing soccer in the yard. For some

reason on the concrete, for some reason,

don't do this at home, but for some

reason on the concrete, I slid on the

floor for the ball and I really hurt my

knee.

And I looked down and I saw the damage I

had done and I was like,

and then came the crying and then came

the shouting.

This is actually what's happening in Job

Job 3 · chapter mention

chapter 3.

There has been silence in Job's life for

seven days.

Pain has happened in his life.

Everything has been taken away from Job.

He's lost his family,

his children.

He's lost his servants. He's lost his

animals. He's lost his health. His wife

has even told him to turn against God.

And for seven days,

he's been looking

quiet

at the pain in his life,

shocked.

And in this chapter,

we're going to hear the scream.

In this chapter, we're going to hear the

shout of his pain.

Look at what it says in chapter 3 verse

1.

After this,

Job opened his mouth and cursed the day

of his birth.

After this seven days of silence, after

seven days of not speaking, after seven

days of keeping his lips shut, Job is

the first one to speak, not the friends

who come around. It is Job who first

opens his mouth

and he speaks.

And what does he speak? Well, Job

speaks about his birth. And this whole

chapter is actually about Job's birth.

And he begins by cursing the day of his

birth. He begins this chapter by

bringing a curse. And this is the very

thing that Job never wanted to do. Job

never wanted people to speak a curse.

You remember in Job 1:5,

Job 1:5

Job offers sacrifices for his children

because he was concerned that it may be

that his children had cursed God.

So Job offers a sacrifice just in case

his children cursed God.

And then Job in the depths of his

despair when he was sitting on the ash

heap, his wife comes to him and says,

"Job, give up and curse God."

And Job rebukes her

and says, "No, we're not going to do

this. Shall we just ex accept good from

God and not evil?"

And then this chapter,

Job begins

by doing the very thing that we would

think he wouldn't do. He curses.

But the important thing is he does not

curse God.

He walks kind of right up to the line.

He doesn't cross the line, but he walks

right up to the line. And instead of

cursing God directly, what he does is he

he curses his own birth.

He opens his mouth and curses his own

birth and and wishes

that the birth never happened, that the

birth never took place.

And that's what he does in verses 3-6.

He he Job curses his birth. Listen to

what he says. Let the day perish on

which I was born and the night that said

a man is conceived.

Let the day be darkness.

May May God above not seek it, nor light

shine upon it. Let gloom and deep

darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon

it. Let the blackness of the day terrify

it. That night, let thick darkness seize

it. Let not rejoice let let it not

rejoice among the days of the year.

Let it not come into the number

of the months.

Job is cursing the day of his birth.

I wish it just never happened.

That's the depths of his despair here. I

wish it never took place.

And actually in in stepping close to the

line, Job, yes, he is cursing the day of

his birth, but he's also questioning

something else.

I'm going to read to you the word that

is repeated again and again and ask you

this question. What does it remind you

of?

The word that is repeated throughout

these verses is the word let. Verse

three, let the day perish on which I was

born.

Let that day be darkness.

Verse four, verse 5, let gloom and

darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon

it. Verse six, let it not rejoice among

the days of the year. The end of verse

six, let it not come into the number of

months.

What does that remind you of when it

says, "Let there be darkness?"

Job isn't just cursing the day of his

birth,

but Job is questioning the day of

creation.

In the in the very first day of

creation, in the days of creation

in Genesis chapter 1 verse 2, it says

Genesis 1:2

this, "The earth was formless and void,

and darkness was over the face of the

deep." That's where Job is. He's in

darkness. And darkness was over the face

of the deep. And the spirit of God was

hovering over the face of the waters.

And God said, "Let there be light."

And there was light. And God saw that

the light was good and he separated the

light from the darkness. You see, that's

what God did. There was darkness. The

world was formless and void. And God

came in and he said, "Let there be

light."

And Job, he's in this moment where all

he sees is darkness. And he says, "No,

let there be darkness."

This is how Job feels.

And the imagery of darkness is also

present in these verses. It's not just

the repetition of this word let, but

it's also repetition of that theme in

darkness. Look at verse three. And the

night that it was conceived, he talks

about the night. In verse four, he says,

let that day be darkness. In verse 5, he

says, "Let gloom and deep darkness claim

it. Let clouds dwell upon it. Let the

blackness of the day terrify it."

Darkness, gloom, blackness, night. This

is how Job feels.

And there's times in our lives where we

feel that way. darkness, gloom,

blackness,

despair.

And he goes on, stepping almost closer

to the line. He not only curses the day

of his birth, but he also moves on and

steps further and says he curses the day

of his very conception,

the nine months previous to his birth.

He curses the day of his conception.

Verse 7, behold, let that night be

barren. Let no joyful cry enter it. Let

those curse

who curse the day, who are ready to

rouse Leviathan.

Let the stars of its dawn be dark.

Let it hope for light, but have none,

nor see the eyelids of the morning,

because it did not shut the doors of my

mother's womb, nor hid trouble from my

eyes.

He's not only cursing in these verses

the day of his birth, but in verse

seven, he's cursing the very day, the

very night of his conception. let that

night be barren.

And in this darkness,

what he does is he calls and names this

kind of strange creature in verse 8.

He says, "Let those who curse it, who

curse the day,

who are ready to rouse up Leviathan."

And I just want to mention Leviathan

just for a second here because it's

going to be a very important concept as

we look at the book of Job together

because some would look at Leviathan as

the creature and some would say that

Leviathan is a is a real creature.

Maybe a crocodile some would argue or or

maybe a whale some would argue or maybe

even an early kind of dinosaur type

reptile. See it's in the Bible. It's in

the Bible. It's there.

But I don't think that's what's going on

here. It doesn't seem that Job is is

telling the magicians, those who would

bring curses of the day. That's what

he's saying. He's rousing up those

magicians, those who would bring curses

of the day. He's calling on them, rise

up Leviathan. And Leviathan was this

kind of mythical creature who was a

symbol of chaos and evil. And what he's

saying in the darkness of his life, and

we're going to get to this Leviathan

more when we get into chapter 41 and

explain that together, but what he's

really saying is, I'm in the darkness

already. I'm in such blackness already.

Why don't those magicians who call about

curses just rise up the mythical

creature of Leviathan and and bring him

up and and bring all chaos into this

world? Because my life is chaos anyway,

so why not just bring on more?

And that's ultimately what he's saying.

And he's saying all this again

in that theme of darkness,

continuing those words of let it, verse

9, let the stars of its dawn be dark.

He's almost trying to reverse creation

itself.

Let there not be light. Let there be

darkness. Let there not be the sty stars

in the sky,

but let there be darkness.

Let it hope for light

but have none.

I know. Happy Mother's Day.

But there are times in our life like

this.

We shouldn't ignore it.

Sometimes

as Christians,

we mightn't say this, but we kind of

perceive

that we should just be happy, clappy all

the time. And that's just not life.

That's just not real life.

And in God's providence,

even this week with stuff going on in my

family and around, I just haven't been

happy and clappy and and joyful.

And you know what? That's okay.

The Bible gives us space for that stuff.

Job right now is in darkness.

Job right now is lamenting.

And sometimes as Christians, we kind of

panic when we see people lamenting and

and in that place of darkness and we

kind of say, "Oh, no, no, no. You should

be rejoicing. Oh, no. It's all okay."

But sometimes it's just not okay.

And the Bible gives us space

to say it's okay not to be okay.

And this is where Job's at.

He's in the darkness

and he's not okay.

He's not really talking to anyone at

this point. He's just shouting and

screaming after after the the silence

and he's he's talking to himself

in his darkness.

I remember talking to someone and I

won't go into all the details, but I

remember talking to them and they said

to me this, "Shane,

I see all the happy moments of life. I

see all the happy moments of life.

I see the birthday and I know it's a

happy moment. I see the wedding and I

know it's a happy moment. I see the

birth of a child and I know it's meant

to be a happy moment.

But every time I see these moments, it's

like this. I've just got dark glasses

on. So, yes, I'm seeing what everybody

else sees,

but I'm just seeing them through the

lens of darkness.

That can happen to us.

And could I say this morning,

maybe that's happening to some of you.

Maybe you're in that place where you're

feeling darkness.

Maybe it's not as desperate as Job's

situation,

but maybe it's difficult.

And what you're seeing right now is just

darkness.

Can I encourage you with a few things?

If that's you right now, if you are

feeling that place of darkness,

here's the first thing I want to say to

you.

It's okay to feel that way.

It is okay to feel that way.

The book of Psalms

has about about roughly depending what

scholars you read about 60 laments s

psalms or 65 whoever you read lament

psalms devoted to this picture of crying

out to God. Let me read some of them to

you and you'll get the picture. Psalm

Psalms 13:1

13:1 How long, oh Lord, will I forget

will you forget me forever? How long

will you hide your face from me? That's

a lament. Lord, have you just forgotten

me?

Psalm 6:3.

Psalms 6:3

My soul is greatly troubled.

But with you, oh Lord, how long?

I'm troubled. How long are you going to

leave me in this place of trouble?

Psalm 42:3.

Psalms 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night

while they say to me all day long,

"Where is your God?"

Psalm 74:1, "Oh God, why do you cast

Psalms 74:1

us off forever?

Why does your anger smoke against the

sheep of your pasture?"

My tears have been my food.

There is a category

where it's okay for us scripturally and

biblically to lament.

And sometimes what you will find in this

world is everybody's just trying to

avoid the darkness of lament.

Every funeral, people are trying to

avoid in our country what's actually

happened, what's actually taken place.

And we try and put loads of jokes in

there and funny songs in there. But the

reality is something dark has really

happened and taken place. And at a

funeral, we should say that's not right.

It shouldn't be like this. Death is not

the norm. And it should be painful

and it should hurt.

And in those moments, God gives us a

category whereby we as his people can

lament before him.

So brothers and sisters, I just say to

you, it's okay not to be okay. Sometimes

you don't always have to smile your way

through life.

But here's what I'd also encourage you.

Don't aim to stay that way.

It's okay not to be okay, but you don't

want to stay there forever, do you?

So, I'd encourage you this. If you are

in that dark place right now,

go and tell someone.

Tell a brother or sister in Christ how

you are actually feeling.

Don't be alone with your feelings.

Some of us we we we struggle to say how

we're really feeling and it's a very

vulnerable place.

But actually,

do you know it is part of the

Christian's job description to be with

you in that moment as you tell them.

Romans 12 verse 15 says this to

Romans 12:15

Christians. Rejoice with those who

rejoice

and weep with those who weep.

When you are in that dark place and you

come to someone with your weeping, do

you know what their job to do is?

To weep with you, to be alongside you,

to remind you in that moment that you

are not alone.

and they'll save you in that moment. Not

only am I with you,

but our father in heaven is with you.

And so that's what I'd encourage you to

do. Not ignore the darkness. We can have

those moments of darkness, but I'd

encourage you also to go and tell

someone.

So Job in this chapter, what does he do?

Well, he curses his birth and he curses

his conception. And then he moves to

question his birth once again. Verse 11

down to verse 19. Notice the question he

keeps asking. Verse 11. Why did I not

die at birth?

Come out from the womb and expire?

Why did the knees receive me? And why

the breasts that I should nurse? For

then I would have lained down and been

quiet. I would have slept. Then I would

have been at rest.

The kings and counselors of the earth

who rebuilt ruins for themselves or with

the princes who had gold who filled

their houses with silver. Or why

was I not as a hidden stillborn child,

as infants who never see the light?

There the wicked cease from troubling,

and there the weary are at rest. There

the prisoners are at ease together.

They hear

not the voice of the taskmaster.

The small and the great are there

and the slave is free from his

master.

There is a date that each and every

single one of you I guarantee remembers.

And the date that every single one of

you remembers is your birthday,

right? It's the day that all of us have

to remember. It's probably the first

date you were ever taught to remember

your birthday.

What Job is saying here is, I wish that

date was just ripped out of the

calendar.

I wish that birth day was actually a

death day.

And in wishing that he is constantly

asking the question in these verses,

why?

In fact, he asks the question why six

times in these verses

all the way down from verse 11 to verse

23.

Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?

Why was I even born?

Verse 11, why did I come out from the

womb? Why did I not come out from the

womb and just expire?

Why?

And as he asks the question why, what he

actually longs for is a place of death.

And we do not know what Job fully

believes about the resurrection life and

what he believes truly about his death.

We do not fully know what he believes.

But we do know that he believes in verse

13 that it is a place of quiet.

It is a place of sleep.

It is a place according to him of rest.

We do know that he believes in verse 17

that is it is it is a place where the

wicked cease from troubling.

It is a place of rest.

And in verse 18, it is a place of ease.

He just wishes to die because he thinks

that that place is going to be a lot

better. So why why why?

That's the question a lot of us ask in

our suffering.

We ask the question why.

And it's okay to ask that question in

your suffering. It's okay to continue to

ask that question why. And when we ask

the question why, we get various answers

in the Bible. When we ask the question

of why our suffering, we get a number of

different answers.

Sometimes according to the Bible, we

suffer because of our sin.

Sometimes we suffer because of our sin.

In one Corinthians when talking about

the Lord's supper, 1 Corinthians 11

29,

Paul says to them, the reason some of

you are ill is because of your sin.

You're drinking judgment upon yourself.

So sometimes our suffering is because of

our sin.

Sometimes the Lord allows suffering in

our life because he wants us to grow in

maturity.

James 1 verse 2:4

we struggle with various trials and

tribulations.

Why? Because it produces steadfastness

which release which results in our

maturity as God's people. So sometimes

our suffering is because of sin.

Sometimes our suffering is because God

wants us to bring us to place of

maturity.

Sometimes our suffering is because God

wants to use it to prove our genuiness

and to show his glory. Like we saw from

1 Peter 1:es 6 to8.

And that's what I suggested to you is

happening in Job's life. It's showing as

he still loves the Lord. It's showing

that he's genuine and it's resulting in

God's glory.

So sometimes when we ask the question

why of our suffering, sometimes the

answer is our sin. When we ask the

question why, sometimes the answer is

our maturity. When we ask the question

why, sometimes the answer is our

genuiness and his glory.

But in the book of Job,

sometimes

you ask the question why of God

and you get no answer.

Sometimes

in this world

suffering and hardship will happen to

you and this side of eternity

you will have no answer to your question

why.

And in those moments,

the Christian needs to determine,

even if I don't have answers for my

suffering,

will I still love him to the end?

Will I still follow him to the end? Will

I still be saying, "The Lord gives and

the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name

of the Lord." Job said that when he had

no answers,

no answers.

Job is sitting on the ash sheep.

His wife is saying, "Curse God and die."

And his response is, "Shall we only

accept good and not evil?" He says that

when he has no answers,

brothers and sisters,

in this world, you will suffer.

And sometimes you will have no answers.

But will you still say in those moments,

blessed be the name of the Lord?

Job, he continues to cry and he

continues to ask the question why about

his birth. He still questioning his

birth. And in verse 20 he says, "Why is

the light given to him who is in misery

and life to the bitter in soul? Who long

for death but it comes not and and dig

for it more than hidden treasures. Who

rejoice exceedingly and are glad when

they find the grave? Why is light given

to a man whose way is hidden

whom God has hedged in?

He asks the question of he's questioning

his birth. Why of his birth? And then he

flips that to the imagery of light. And

in verse 20, he asked the question, why

is light given? And in verse 23, he

asked the question, why is light given?

And if life is given, if light is given

and life is given, it implies there is a

giver.

And so it seems in these why questions

that he is now questioning God.

Why was the light ever given to me?

Why was I ever born and brought into

this this misery? And from here you're

hearing and understanding and seeing

Job's perspective on what's happening.

And his perspective in and his false

perspective on what is happening is seen

by the imagery of the hedge.

It's seen in these verses in verse 23 by

the imagery of the hedge. Now what do we

mean by hedge? literally that that bush

that forms a boundary around something.

And we see his false perspective in

relation to what he believes God is

doing with this hedge.

There is false perspectives in relation

to this

one is what I'll say is this. There

there's kind of two hedges that we've

already seen. Are you with me? There's

two hedges. I know. What's he talking

about hedges for? There's two hedges

that we've already seen in the book of

Job.

The first hedge is what is called the

protection hedge.

And this is this is what I'm calling the

protection hedge. This is what Satan

refers to in Job 1:9.

Job 1:9

Here's what he says. Here's his

perspective on Job's suffering. Then

Satan answered the Lord and said, "Jo,

does Job fear God for no reason?

Have you not put a hedge around him and

his house and all that he has on every

side? You have blessed the work of his

hands and his possessions have

increased. So the only reason that Job

loves you is because you've put this

hedge of protection around him. Take it

away and he won't love you. That's

Satan's perspective.

But then Job after everything is taken

away from him, Job comes and it says in

verse 23 of chapter 3, he says,"Wh was

life life given to a man whose way is

hidden whom has been hedged in?" Job's

perspective is this. I have no hedge of

protection. What I have is is a kind of

a prison hedge of of darkness.

You've hedged me in not for good, not

protecting me, but for harm.

That's his perspective

in this darkness.

And so he asks the question, why?

He doesn't understand what God is doing.

And in life, that happens.

Things will happen in your life where

you just don't understand what God is

doing.

And in those times,

you do what Job does.

You close with lament.

Job, he curses his birth. He curses his

conception. He questions his birth.

And now he laments his birth. Verse 24.

For my sighing comes instead of my

bread. My groanings are poured out like

water. For the thing that I fear comes

upon me, and what I dread befalls me. I

am not at ease, nor am I quiet. I have

no rest,

but trouble comes.

This is Job's

final lament in response to what God is

hedging him in on.

You've just imprisoned me in this

darkness

and I cannot

get out.

And in these final verses, verse 24- 26,

we we see that that that Job is

experiencing a number of things. In his

lament, he's experienced a number of

things. First, in his lament, he is

experiencing personal sorrow.

He's experiencing personal sorrow.

Listen to how personal his words are now

in this poem. For my sighing in comes

instead of my bread

and my groanings are poured out.

Verse 25. For the thing that I I fear

comes upon me, and what I dread befalls

me.

26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet. I

have no rest, but trouble comes.

This is not just general sorrow. He is

experiencing personal sorrow.

And you also see that he is experiencing

the second thing he's experiencing not

just personal sorrow but a emotional

hunger.

Cuz if someone going through deep pain

and deep sorrow and you're with them and

and you know there's nothing much I can

do for them um experientially, what do

you know you can do for them? I know I

can do for them something physically. So

when there there's someone mourning and

someone in great sorrow, here's what you

try and do for them. You try to just get

them water and get them food and just

make sure practically they're healthy.

But for Job, do you notice what his

water and his food is?

For my sighing comes instead of my

bread,

and my groanings are poured out like

water.

Sighing is my bread, and groaning,

groaning is my water.

He's experiencing personal sorrow. He's

experiencing emotional hunger. He's also

experiencing what he determines as, I

think, his worst nightmare. Verse 25,

for the thing that I fear comes upon me.

and what I have dreaded befalls me.

We'll get to this further in the book of

Job, but I believe at times Job is

thinking he's experiencing the very

curse of God. The thing that he most

feared for his family was this. The

reason he sacrificed for his family,

gave those burnt offerings, was just in

case they may have cursed God.

And now he thinks his greatest fear has

come upon him.

Maybe he is under the curse of God.

He's experiencing personal sorrow,

emotional hunger. He's experiencing his

worst nightmare. And finally, he's

experiencing nothingness in his lament.

The chapter closes verse 26.

I am not at ease, nor am I quiet.

I have no rest, but trouble comes.

If you were to translate these verses

absolutely literally,

here's what it would sound like.

No ease,

no quiet,

no rest,

only trouble.

His

friends are surrounding him.

And that's how he ends this trap

chapter.

Nothingness.

I have

nothing.

Brothers and sisters,

there is a place for lament.

There is a place in your life for you to

feel these emotions.

No ease,

no quiet,

no rest,

only trouble.

But in our lament,

we must be careful

not to sin.

I think Job comes close,

but Job is in severe pain.

Job is cursing what's around him, but

he's not cursing God. He's lamenting,

but he's not turning from God.

The verses that he said before, "The

Lord gives and the Lord takes away.

Blessed be the name of the Lord." Those

aren't just necessarily words of joyous

victory. They're words of deep pain.

He's saying it in anguish and sorrow.

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away.

But I'm still going to say, "Blessed be

the name of the Lord." And so I believe

he's saying this lament not in sin. He's

still blessing the Lord in his pain.

Do you know it's still possible to

worship the Lord in your pain?

So I'd encourage us as people to lament

and not sin.

But I'd also encourage us this

to lament

but not without hope.

Job, he ends this chapter with no hope.

And so some people would tell me,

Shane, if he ends the chapter with no

hope, where you need to end the sermon

is with no hope.

Because that's what the passage is

doing.

We are not supposed to feel good after

reading this passage.

It's not meant to give us, you know, the

warm fuzzies.

That's not what this passage is about.

But yet, I don't think we need to end

this passage with no hope. Here's why.

Because we have the perspective that Job

doesn't have.

Job, he never saw the conversation in

heaven. We know the conversation in

heaven. We know that the Lord has this

all under control. We know that the

Lord, he is actually doing something. So

while Job is lamenting with no hope, it

encourages us to lament. But as we

lament, as we cry out to God, we don't

lament as people who have no hope.

Every Christian who laments laments with

hope. And the reason for that is this.

The most powerful lament

in all of scripture,

I think, is in Psalm 22:1,

Psalms 22:1

where David laments and cries out to the

Lord,

"My God, my God,

why have you forsaken

me?"

It is the most powerful lament in all of

the scripture

because that powerful lament

points us to the cross

where our savior himself

said, Eloy, Eloy, Lama Sabaki, my God,

my God,

why have you forsaken

me?

There is always hope in our lament

because it points us to the grief of our

savior who was crucified on the cross

for our sins

and knew on the third day he would rise

again.

And in our laments,

we know, brothers and sisters,

there's going to be a day.

I was thinking about that this week. I

was like, this week, my tears are here,

but there's going to be a day where all

of them are wiped away.

There's going to be eternity.

And lament will be no more because tears

will be no more. and it will be joy

forever.

So brothers and sisters, cry, mourn,

grieve, wail, do those things,

but don't do it without hope.

One day we will be with our savior and

there will be no more mourning.

Let's pray.

Lord, thank you for this perspective

that we have on our grief and our sorrow

and our mourning and our pain and those

difficult things that are happening in

our lives.

Thank you that we have somewhere to turn

and thank you that we have a place

in your scripture where just sometimes

we do feel this way and where we can

call out to you and we can cry out to

you in our sorrow.

Thank you Lord

that we have you Lord Jesus a savior who

experienced

sorrow and grief.

Thank you for the comfort that you give

Lord Jesus.

Amen.

Let's stand and sing together in

response. It is well with my soul.