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Helping Suffering Families What do you say to people who are suffering? Friends “When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz…Bildad …Zophar…heard about all the trouble that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.” Job 2:11 Everyone Needs Friends “When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads. Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.” Job 2:12-13 But Not Friends Like These “A despairing man should have the devotion of his friends, even though he forsakes the fear of the Almighty. But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow when darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow but that cease to flow in the dry season.” Job 6:14-17a Guideline Number One Be There and Be Silent Guideline Number Two Listen, and Permit Lament Guideline Number Three Express Your Love Through Action Guideline Number Four Express Words of Love and Sympathy Guideline Number Five Don’t Interpret So, What More Can We Say? Sunday AM: God Loves Sunday PM: God Listens Monday PM: God Understands Tuesday PM: God Reigns Wednesday PM: God Wins Helping Suffering Families The Unrelenting Love Of God Lord, How Have you Loved Us? Have you ever asked that question? Malachi 1:2 “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you ask, “How have you loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” the Lord says. “Yet I loved Jacob, but Esau I have hated.” The Lament (Psalm 77:1-3) “I cried out to God for help; I cried out to God to hear me. When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands and my soul refused to be comforted. I remembered you, O God, and I groaned; I mused, and my spirit grew faint.” The Questions (Psalm 77:7-9) “