Category Archives: Job

Job and his friends were convinced of their own wisdom as they argued back and forth about the nature of Job’s affliction. All the while, they had no idea that God’s purpose in allowing the devil to afflict Job was to use him as an object lesson for faith, a matter that has nothing to do with anything Job might have done. Continue reading →

It is too easy for us to look at everything in our lives in the context of ourselves. We want everything to be about us, whether it really is or not. Continue reading →

No one is right. Job is wrong. His friends are wrong. That is part of the lesson God wants to teach us through Job’s story. Continue reading →

We often feel indignation when someone does not believe us. How much more must Job have felt as his friends accused him of some secret sin as the source for all of his troubles? But Job responded eloquently, pointing out that their arguments were not God’s ways but mans, and that is a lesson we would do well to remember in our own time as we are constantly assaulted by the world’s ways. We must remember that the devil, the world, and our own sinfulness will stop at nothing to turn us from our God and our faith, and that activity is persistent. Continue reading →

Now Job turns to his own complaint. Did he do something to incite God’s wrath? He is not sure of what it might be, so he calls out to God for that answer. And what is that answer? In future chapters of Job, God will speak directly to that point, but the answer is already clear for us to see. Continue reading →