Same As Usual

In what’s likely the oldest book in the Bible, the book of Job, we read, “For man is born for difficulty, as sparks fly upward”. Now there is a statement we want to teach our youngsters and grandkids, beginning today. The message they solidly hear is that God has nothing apart from contentment and accomplishment in store for them if they will trust their lives to Him.

surprisingly, while scraping sores from his sick and pain-racked body, Job asked, “Shall we indeed accept good from God and not adversity?” He made that statement replying to his other half’s recommendation to “curse God and die.” She too was damaged from the loss of her kids and the anguish of watching her hubby suffer so extraordinarily.

( as a young evangelist, I came down too hard on Job’s other half.

She required God’s point of view on her agony. ) It was when her man witnessed how deep her grief was that he replied as he did. He wanted her to notice that God isn’t a heavenly bellboy, delivering only nice and comforting things to our door. When tough times happen you’ll find scores of newly released titles querying how a loving God could be so unfair and unjust. It is simple to be confused in one’s experience of God. As with Job and Paul, He continues to permit suffering to form us into humble, helpful servants.

Throw one of us in a dungeon and we wish to talk to our barrister. Fight the enticement to reconsider God just because hard times come.