Come Follow Me for Teens: "Yet Will I Trust in Him" (Job)

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This week’s Come Follow Me for Teens episode focuses on the book of Job and the theme “Yet Will I Trust in Him.” Job is introduced as a righteous and upright man, yet in a remarkably short period of time he loses his possessions, livelihood, children, health, and much of the support around him. His experience raises one of mortality’s most difficult questions: Why do bad things happen to good people? We explore what Job’s story teaches about the purpose of mortality, including agency, opposition, testing, growth, and faith. Suffering is not always punishment, and we do not always know why a particular tragedy occurs. Some trials result from our own choices, some from the choices of others, and some simply come from living in a fallen world. Job’s story reminds us that faith does not mean every question will immediately be answered. Sometimes, as President Boyd K. Packer taught, “Things we cannot solve, we must survive.” Through Jesus Christ, we do not have to survive those experiences alone. We then study Job’s powerful declaration: “For I know that my redeemer liveth.” By Job 19, nearly everything around him seems to have gone wrong. Job feels forgotten, rejected, physically broken, and alone. Yet he chooses to focus on the truth he still knows—his Redeemer lives. We connect Job’s experience with Peter walking on the water. Peter was able to move toward Jesus Christ while the wind and waves were still present. It was when his focus shifted toward the storm that he began to sink. Focusing on Christ does not mean pretending problems are not real. It means remembering that Jesus Christ is also part of the reality. We may not know how everything will work out, but we can know who will walk with us through it. The episode also includes personal experiences with divorce, job loss, financial uncertainty, concern for missionary daughters, and grief—illustrating how the Savior can provide peace even when circumstances have not yet changed. Finally, we study Job’s testimony: “When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.” Job could not always perceive what God was doing, but he trusted that God could see him. Through the imagery of refining metal, Joseph Smith’s experience in Liberty Jail, Francis Webster and the Martin Handcart Company, and a personal story about a missionary accident that changed the direction of an entire life, we explore how adversity can deepen faith, increase compassion, strengthen character, and help us become more like Jesus Christ. This does not mean God directly causes every painful experience. Rather, the miracle of the gospel is that nothing we experience is beyond the Savior’s ability to redeem and consecrate for our good. The book of Job teaches that life is a test, but we do not have to face that test alone. Jesus Christ can strengthen us through what we cannot currently solve, give us peace while the storm is still present, and refine us through adversity until we too can say: “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.”

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