JOB ~ 'the unlucky!' - B#
Job's life had become the 'perfect storm', no where to flee. Reason seeks fair answers to the biggest questions, it is driven from mankind's sense of justice.
Job's catalogue of hardship began as - livestock stolen and servants killed by the Sabeans, servants and sheep burnt by the fire of God, the Chaldeans carried off his camels and put his servants to the sword, sons and daughters died when a mighty wind struck the house they were feasting in. Job's life then deteriorates much further in 2:1-10.
Most of the book of Job is the subsequent interaction between Job's friends and Job who feels aggrieved that his misfortune is not deserved. Job is dismayed and questions God. If he only gains God's attention Job could take his protestations to heaven's Throne Room, God will see the 'error of His ways'. The logic is a simple equation:
I am good therefore God will be good to me, and vice-versa.
BUT, prosperity or otherwise is not a good guide to God's pleasure in you.
In Job 40:1 - 41:34 God takes Job to task. Job humbly repents in 42:1-6.
... Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know. (Job 42:3b)
Is this not the human condition, for it's my condition too?
I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men may fear Him. (Ecclesiastes 3:14)
#Much of today's SoulSnack is reproduced from Dr Frank Stootman's notes.
ENJOY too, JOB ~ 'the unlucky!' - A#