What happened to Job is hard to understand – and to a certain degree – similar things will happen in our own lives which will have us looking into the sky – asking ‘Why?’.
We know, from what’s written about Job that he ” … eventually got the point: there were some things he would never understand, and because God is who He is, He should be taken on trust. Job emerged from the experience, not with his mind enlightened, but with a fuller and richer awareness of God than he had ever known before. … ”
There are many people who will not accept ’silence’ as an answer, when they ask the big ‘Why’ questions. I tend to feel that they think of God as a type of superior human being – a sort of infallible oracle – that if the right question is asked then an answer will always be given. If no answer is received then they would prefer to doubt the existence of God - the logic is along these lines: if there’s no acceptable and understandable answer then there is no God. Yet from the Bible we are told that God’s ways are different to our ways. And, from the Book of Job we also know that this side of the grave, some questions will not be answered. Accepting, that an answer will not be found, requires humility – this is too hard to accept by many living in this technical world. If you don’t get any search results when you use Google on the Internet what does it normally mean? Do you think this type of ’search’ mentality is prevalent among young people today?
Job’s Bar exam
What happened to Job is hard to understand – and to a certain degree – similar things will happen in our own lives which will have us looking into the sky – asking ‘Why?’.
We know, from what’s written about Job that he ” … eventually got the point: there were some things he would never understand, and because God is who He is, He should be taken on trust. Job emerged from the experience, not with his mind enlightened, but with a fuller and richer awareness of God than he had ever known before. … ”
There are many people who will not accept ’silence’ as an answer, when they ask the big ‘Why’ questions. I tend to feel that they think of God as a type of superior human being – a sort of infallible oracle – that if the right question is asked then an answer will always be given. If no answer is received then they would prefer to doubt the existence of God - the logic is along these lines: if there’s no acceptable and understandable answer then there is no God. Yet from the Bible we are told that God’s ways are different to our ways. And, from the Book of Job we also know that this side of the grave, some questions will not be answered. Accepting, that an answer will not be found, requires humility – this is too hard to accept by many living in this technical world. If you don’t get any search results when you use Google on the Internet what does it normally mean? Do you think this type of ’search’ mentality is prevalent among young people today?