Job 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. 14:14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Neighbor oh neighbor Do you trust God? I suggest to you today will find one of the most powerful declaration of faith that you will find in all of scrip. My dad was old school and if you’re going thru something you had 1 of 2 choices either get over it or don’t and don’t waste my time if you’re not trying to get over it. I don’t mean to simplify the complexities or whatever your issues are no matter what your going thru in life, life always boils down to 1 question DYTG? I don’t mean to trivialize your trauma or minimize the storm you’re in or the struggles in your life. No matter what it is it starts and stops with the same question DYTG? I know it hurts I know it’s been chronic I know you didn’t think life would turn out this way but at the end of the day you will have to answer GYTG? When the doctor comes in the room and say I found something DYTG when you’re laid off of the Job DYTG? When boo boo that said I do say I don’t do you trust G when you find friends are fake and enemies are real DYTG? When you have no clue where the next dime or dollar is going to come from DYTG? That the core questions all of us must ask ourselves along the way in life journey DYTG? That’s the question that drives the saga and the story that is J. And even if you never read Job book you’re going to walk in Job shoes and play job some moment you’re going to go thru a struggle that don’t make sense and lose something or someone that you think G should have let live or a sickness and we ask G why? This is a wager between G and Satan And the LORD said unto Satan, verses 7, 8,11,12 G allowed J to lose everything disaster takes his fortune disease torments his flesh death troubles his family J Had disaster hit him disease finds him disease touches him you would think he ready to give up on G no the D find out he can’t touch his faith. J declared Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. No matter what goes on in my life I made a decision to T G when I don’t understand it I W T G when it’s not the answer to the pray I prayed I T G no matter what I go thru I W T G. S has tried thru 3 different scenario to test Job trust and there are 3 times you will have to activate your T I G. # 1 When people have hurt you to the core of your heart you have to make a decision I W T G Job 2:11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came everyone from his own place; Eliphaz, and Bildad, and Zophar or they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him. 12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent everyone his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. 13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great. Everything was ok until they stared accusing J of being a sinner you’re going thru because you done something you sinned and have not confessed and repented so tell us what you done. J is hurt because he taken his whole life to prove he holt upright and he loves G. nothing hurts more than when you think you have proven your character and somebody doubts you not. When you have shown yourself faithful to someone who doubts you it hurts. The D knows when your hurt you will break your T I G and you will try to handle it on your own. Every day you wakes up the D has assigned somebody to get on your nerves and you got to get somebody told. But G is omniscience G knows what they did and how it hurt you and G can handle it for you T I G. #2 trust G when your pass haunt and hinders you everybody in here has a pass and everything in your pass is not glorious somebody wants to remind you where you use to do and go some folk hold on to what you use to be. The mistakes J makes he argues for 30 chapters with folk about his past he wastes chaps of his life trying to prove to folk that he ain’t who they thought he was. I don’t go where I use to go I don’t act like I use to act I don’t talk like I use to talk I am not who I was. Others may not forgive you of the offense but G will always forgive you of the sin. If we confess our sin G is faithful and just and will forgive us of all our unrighteousness he is a forgiving G. I W T G that he is a merciful G. PS 136 has 26 verses and I will show you how to memorize all 26 verse 1 his mercy endures forever yes I fail his mercy endures forever yes I messed up his mercy endures his mercy endures forever yes I dropped the ball his mercy endures forever yes no I am not perfect yes but his mercy endures forever. #3 When your problems are more than you can handle when it get to much to handle money lost his children killed his servants slaughtered health taken his reputation destroyed even his marriage is in jeopardy because she tell him to curse G and die J finds out what many of us has learned in life if it ain’t one thing it’s another if it not your money it’s your health if it’s not your health it’s your marriage if its nor your marriage it’s your job if it’s not your job it’s your one child acting crazy the moment you get them right the 2nd act the fool if it’s not one thing it’s another. That cliché that say when the praise go up the blessing comes down that theologically inaccurate correct that suggest G has some blessing on will call and he not going to give you unless shout and praise him G is not so fickle you need to holler if G is going to bless you G going to bless you according to his word. That cliché that Ecc 9:11 returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Matt 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved. Another cliché he won’t put more on you than you can bear you know life can add more put more and more and more on you when you reach the point that you can’t bear it any longer ans its in that moment you become like job and say all I can do is trust you I don’t understand B I T Y it more than I can handle BITY you get to the place that all I can do is TU. God takes J on a comic field trip and shows him some things after showing J everything he ask him some questions why is there bow wow in a dog and a meow in a cat the same way that made the leaves green I am the same G that has my hand on your life G told me to tell you I got this I got this I got this I will take care of all issues I want to see people stand on their feet that know what it is to be broke I don’t mean you was waiting on a check I mean you knew that check could not cover what you owed didn’t G make a way in your life you ought TG peole that been sick not Tylenol sick unto death on a bed of affliction and G brought you out and you can see I T G.