The Christian Man’s Response to Suffering
Job lived during the time of the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob), probably near the earlier end of that timeframe, but this book was written about him much later. This is how all history was...
View ArticleJob Vents
We can all identify with loss and grief, but few of us to the extent of Job. Job experienced a series of devastating losses that hit him literally from every direction. The Sabeans would have come from...
View Article“Who That Was Innocent Ever Perished?”
“Yet who can keep from speaking?” (Job 4:2) Apparently not Eliphaz, one of Job’s “friends” who tries to step in and speak for God as to the reasons that Job’s life has come crashing in around him....
View Article“I Know That My Redeemer Lives”
The second round of conversations between Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar and Job in Job 15-21 reveals that Job’s friends have escalated their personal attacks on Job: Eliphaz tells him that his own words...
View ArticleDoes God Love More Those Who Suffer Less?
In Job 22-31, the third and final cycle of dialogue between Job and his three friends, Job’s friends’ arguments are getting much shorter. In fact, Zophar doesn’t even open his mouth, and Bildad only...
View ArticleEnter Elihu
Job’s friends have argued until they are blue in the face that God is sovereign and God is just and that the only answer to Job’s obvious suffering and grief and sickness is that he is being punished...
View ArticleElihu Burns With Anger
Job’s three friends were no help to him at all. Finally, a much younger man named Elihu stepped up who had apparently been listening to these older men argue. As a younger man, Elihu knew his place and...
View ArticleGod Speaks to Job (And To Us)
God’s monologue in Job 38-41 makes a few things clear to me: God chose not to respond to Job right away. He chose to allow Job and his friends to struggle a bit with this issue of pain, even though it...
View ArticleJob’s Confession & Repentance
We take God too lightly. We take His name too lightly. And I’m not talking just about people who aren’t believers, people who don’t know God. Remember, Job was a believer. Job did know God. Job’s sins...
View ArticleJob’s Restoration (and Ours)
In Job 42:7-17, Job’s story ends just the way that we hoped it would. Job’s three “friends” Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar get rebuked by God. And everything that Job had lost, his possessions, his health,...
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