Job

One of the goals I set for myself this year was to read through the bible.  So, I copied a plan off the Internet that goes in Chronological order.


I started out in Genesis and then went to Job.


I really, really, really liked reading Job,


I have heard people talk about that book a lot but reading it for myself was great.  I learned so much from it.


I was comforted by Job's reaction to his circumstances, first that he questioned God, because I think everyone at some point and time in their life questions God.  Things happen all the time that I don't understand and it made me feel pretty good that even such a righteous man as Job questions his trials.


And having said that it also made me very humble in that I am nothing and God can do whatever he pleases and I should just trust him and not say a word.  

"Surely I spoke of things I did not understand:

I talked of things too wonderful for me to know."

Job 42:5,6

I think we can all see our self as Job in some sense, I mean we all have times when we don't understand why everything seems to happen to us?  I mean some people just can't seem to catch a break.  It's normal to seek God's will during those times, isn't it?

These are opportunities for us to grow, to grow in our relationship with Christ and within ourselves.

I mean it all turned out pretty swell in the end for Job.

The Lord blessed the last part of Job's life even more than the first part.  

Job 42:12