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WHAT IS JOB ALL ABOUT?
AUG 15
Job 2-3
Memorise Job 1:21 "shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?"
WHAT IS JOB ALL ABOUT?
Many of us are familiar with Job 1-2, and also the last chapter, Job 42. We all know how Job’s faith was put to the test by a barrage of terrible trials from the hand of Satan himself, and how he proved himself exemplary in the face of all these testings. We also read with joy, of how the Lord "blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning" (Job 42:12). But then how about the rest of the book of Job? What are the 39 chapters in between all about? What can we learn from them?
Job 2:11 actually gives us the introduction to the whole middle section of the book of Job, as we see three of Job’s so-called friends come to mourn with Job and attempt to comfort him. From Job 3 onwards, it is actually a long discourse between Job and the three friends, who are later also joined by a fourth from Job 32 onwards. Initially Job pours out his great grief and laments to them, and tries to find an answer for his suffering. As his friends reply in turn, each of them tries to explain why Job was suffering all these calamities. Their main thesis is that Job’s suffering comes as a result of his sin, and each one of them exhorts him to repent. As he denies their accusations one by one, they come up with more and more specific sins which they believe he had committed, as the reason for God’s judgment upon him. Thus instead of coming to comfort him, Job’s friends end up as being the devil’s advocate, accusing him and furthering his sorrow, claiming that he deserved all the sufferings that he received.
Finally, God appears to Job in chapter 38, and all doubts were quashed before the Almighty God. His friends were certainly wrong in their false accusations, but neither was Job blameless. God did not directly answer their queries, nor did he give any explanation as to why Job suffered. Instead, with a few simple questions, God proves his sovereignty and power, and shows how ignorant and weak man really is. To this mighty spectacle of God’s ability, Job had no answer, except for a humble confession "Behold I am vile, what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth" (Job 40:4). The lesson we see is that it is never man’s place to question God, or to justify our actions before Him. We can never fully explain why anything happens in our lives, but we are to simply trust Him the almighty God who created the heavens and the earth.
Thought: We can never fully fathom the ways of God.
Prayer: Lord may You grant me the faith to believe that You are always in control of all things.
Posted in Teens RPG
Job 2-3
Memorise Job 1:21 "shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?"
WHAT IS JOB ALL ABOUT?
Many of us are familiar with Job 1-2, and also the last chapter, Job 42. We all know how Job’s faith was put to the test by a barrage of terrible trials from the hand of Satan himself, and how he proved himself exemplary in the face of all these testings. We also read with joy, of how the Lord "blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning" (Job 42:12). But then how about the rest of the book of Job? What are the 39 chapters in between all about? What can we learn from them?
Job 2:11 actually gives us the introduction to the whole middle section of the book of Job, as we see three of Job’s so-called friends come to mourn with Job and attempt to comfort him. From Job 3 onwards, it is actually a long discourse between Job and the three friends, who are later also joined by a fourth from Job 32 onwards. Initially Job pours out his great grief and laments to them, and tries to find an answer for his suffering. As his friends reply in turn, each of them tries to explain why Job was suffering all these calamities. Their main thesis is that Job’s suffering comes as a result of his sin, and each one of them exhorts him to repent. As he denies their accusations one by one, they come up with more and more specific sins which they believe he had committed, as the reason for God’s judgment upon him. Thus instead of coming to comfort him, Job’s friends end up as being the devil’s advocate, accusing him and furthering his sorrow, claiming that he deserved all the sufferings that he received.
Finally, God appears to Job in chapter 38, and all doubts were quashed before the Almighty God. His friends were certainly wrong in their false accusations, but neither was Job blameless. God did not directly answer their queries, nor did he give any explanation as to why Job suffered. Instead, with a few simple questions, God proves his sovereignty and power, and shows how ignorant and weak man really is. To this mighty spectacle of God’s ability, Job had no answer, except for a humble confession "Behold I am vile, what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth" (Job 40:4). The lesson we see is that it is never man’s place to question God, or to justify our actions before Him. We can never fully explain why anything happens in our lives, but we are to simply trust Him the almighty God who created the heavens and the earth.
Thought: We can never fully fathom the ways of God.
Prayer: Lord may You grant me the faith to believe that You are always in control of all things.
Posted in Teens RPG