Author’s note: I recently led our church in this prayer of confession. Before we started praying, we read from Job 1–2 and saw that no one is totally exempt from suffering, even those who fear the Lord. Then I asked our church, “In what ways have you and I distrusted God’s goodness and God’s sovereignty over our lives, even this past week?”
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Lord, we just read how Job suffered much in his life. He suffered the loss of his estate. His economic welfare. His livelihood. He also suffered the loss of his own children—7 sons and 3 daughters. Lord, even losing 1 child would be enough to send a person into a lifetime of grief. But 10? And yet, we read in Job 1:21, Job’s immediate reaction to his suffering was grief andworship.
Lord, we confess this often is NOT our immediate response to suffering and loss in our lives. Instead of worship, we worry. Instead of grieving with hope, we gripe in unbelief. Instead of acknowledging Your “taking something away” from our lives and accepting it by faith as a part of Your perfect plan, we harbor bitterness toward you. We even begin to
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