"My Servant Job"

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"The LORD asked Satan, 'Have you thought about my servant Job? No one in the world is like him! He is a man of integrity: He is decent, he fears God, and he stays away from evil.'" Job 1:8 God's Word to the Nations

For the next five days we're going to consider Job's life. His story reads like a three act play. Maybe that's the way your life feels, too.

In the first act we're introduced to Job's life, to his integrity, wealth, and concern for his family. We're also introduced to God who interacts with Satan, and as a result of their interaction a dynamic change happens in Job's life: He loses everything except his wife and life.

Job's dilemma in the second act centers around the question of why he suffers. Through his poetic interaction with three friends he attempts to understand why he has lost everything when he hasn't done anything to deserve his pain. His so-called friends press the knife into Job's wounds by adamantly clinging to their belief that Job has offended God and he is receiving what he deserves.

When God reappears in the third act of Job's life, we expect him to reveal why Job has suffered, but the question goes unanswered.

This picture of the Hayman fire in Colorado depicts both healthy and burned timber, symbolic of the collision between God and Satan over Job. Even though it is God who draws Satan's attention to Job, it is God who seeks to give him life. Satan seek's Job's demise.

Even though you're life might feel like a three act play centered on the question why, God desires to breathe life into your story. Does this mean we'll understand what God does? Probably not, but he can be trusted.

As we walk with Job through his suffering and are reminded of the pain we endure, may we learn to trust God when God doesn't make sense.

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