Job defied all odds. God said of him - there is no one on earth like him, he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. Yet Job was chosen to suffer a series of losses that defied all odds. Of all people on earth, Job has reason to beg for an answer. It's all there for us to read in chapter after chapter of his desperate struggle to understand - why me?
Job's story gives us a way of responding to the mystery of unexplained pain and evil. By describing the suffering and confusion of one of God's best examples of goodness and mercy, we gain an alternative to the inflexible rule of sowing and reaping.
The story of Job gives us reason to live by faith than sight.
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