Episode 189: July 14 2024 - Walking With The Broken

Eternity Church PodCast

A Sunday morning sermon by Kathleen Hudson. Our walk with Job has been a challenging one to process and digest in application to our walk with God. In examining Elihu’s speeches, we may seek to find ourselves in the story. Do we identify with Job, the one who has been beaten up by loss and by life? Do we see ourselves in Job’s friends, those who seek to provide explanation and quick balm to grief without really acknowledging the depth someone's pain? Does the nature of Elihu, the one who speaks from the margins, ring true to our core? Or would we rather close the book altogether and walk away from the idea of having to experience pain? The truth is that we have been in each of these positions repeatedly in our time on this earth. Humanity rubs against humanity. Sometimes that polishes, and sometimes that chafes. But we were intended to live and worship in community. Living in community or being a family encompasses all of the human experience and our responses to that experience. God has called us to this community. What does that mean for us as we worship together and share the details of life together? How does God call us to respond in our lives within this family? Job 34 leads us to Elihu describing the very nature and grandeur of God and, inherent in God’s nature, the justice of God. In God’s justice, we are healed through restoration. We will take a look this week at what it means live as a family walking with one another towards this restoration.