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Week 33
Job 1–3;12–14;19;21–24;38–40;42

Come Follow Me 2026 · Week 33

Family Activities

August 10–16 - Job 1–3; 12–14; 19; 21–24; 38–40; 42

This week's one thing

When hard things happen, faith in Jesus Christ gives us an anchor that holds even when we have no answers.

Opener: Who Am I? (The Mystery Sufferer)

paperpen or markertape

Write 'Job' on a slip of paper and tape it to the back of one family member without showing them. Everyone else knows who it is. The person with the paper asks yes/no questions to figure out who they are: 'Did I live in the Old Testament?' 'Did something bad happen to me?' 'Did I still believe in God even when things were terrible?' Keep going until they guess. Then ask everyone: what do you already know about this person?

Job had everything taken from him and still said, 'Yet will I trust in him' (Job 13:15), which is exactly what faith looks like when you have no answers.

Scripture Story

Job is a good man. He loves God, takes care of his family, and helps people around him. Then, in one terrible week, everything falls apart. His animals are stolen. His servants are killed. And then the worst news: his children are gone too. Job tears his robe, bows his head, and says, 'The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord' (Job 1:21). Later, Job gets painful sores all over his body. He sits in the dust, hurting. His wife tells him to give up on God. His friends tell him he must have done something wrong to deserve this. But Job shakes his head. He does not know why this is happening. He tells God exactly how much he is hurting. And then, in the middle of all that pain, he says something that stops everyone cold: 'I know that my redeemer liveth' (Job 19:25). What do you think Job was feeling when he said those words out loud?

Discussion Questions

Little Kids (ages 4–7)

  • When something makes you really sad or scared, what is one thing that helps you feel better?
  • Job lost a lot of things he loved. What is something you love that you would really miss?

Big Kids (ages 8–11)

  • Job's friends kept telling him he must have done something wrong to deserve his suffering. Why do you think people sometimes say that when something bad happens to someone?
  • Job complained to God and told Him exactly how much he was hurting. Do you think that was okay to do? Why or why not?

Teens

  • God never actually explains to Job why he suffered, and Job never gets a tidy answer. By the end of the book, Job seems okay with that. What would it take for you to be okay with not getting an answer to your hardest 'why' question?

This Week's Challenge

This week, when something goes wrong for anyone in the family, that person says one true thing they still believe, even while they're upset. Write those statements on a shared piece of paper on the fridge. Read them together on Sunday.

Song Suggestions

🎵 I Know That My Savior Loves Me🎼 How Firm a Foundation

Roots in a Storm

Ages 3-10~10 min
papercrayons or markersa cup of watera small stone
  1. 1

    Step 1: Draw a big tree in the middle of your paper. Give it a wide trunk and lots of branches. Then draw rain coming down and wind lines blowing sideways.

  2. 2

    Step 2: Flip your paper over and draw the roots going deep underground, at least as long as the tree is tall. Make them spread wide and go down far.

  3. 3

    Step 3: Put the stone on top of the paper tree to represent hard things pressing down. Then look at the roots you drew on the back and talk about what Job's roots were made of.

Job's faith in his Redeemer was like deep roots: the storm bent him hard, but he didn't fall, because he was held from underneath.

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