How do you praise God when you lose everything? In Job 1, a good man loses his wealth, his servants, and all ten of his children in a single day — yet he worships God. Dr. Toby Holt opens the book of Job and the hardest question in life: how do we trust God when everything collapses?

Job is a blameless, upright man, the wealthiest in the East. Behind the scenes, Satan accuses him, claiming Job only loves God for his blessings. God allows Satan to strip away his possessions and children, and in one day it all comes crashing down. Yet Job worships: "The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away."

Questions this study answers:

1. Why did God allow Job to suffer? Not because Job had sinned, but because God prized his faith. Satan claimed Job loved God only for his blessings, and God allowed the test to prove otherwise.

2. How could Job still worship after such loss? Because his faith rested on God Himself, not his circumstances. He trusted that the God who gives also has the right to take away.

3. What does Job 1 teach us about suffering? That hardship can come even to the godly, and that God remains in control. Faith stands on who God is, not on how comfortable life is.

"...The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." — Job 1:21 (NKJV)

Dr. Toby Holt is President of New Geneva Theological Seminary, and his sermons have been downloaded more than 1.9 million times on SermonAudio. Find more verse-by-verse Bible teaching at newgeneva.org; support this ministry at newgeneva.org/give.