This is a Bible study tool designed to take us through the entire Bible in 2 years. Six days a week (Monday through Saturday) there will be a post telling you what the assigned readings are. Some days there will also be comments from me. These are intended to provide material for devotional meditation and practical application. Please feel welcome to post questions or comments so that we can encourage each other. May God bless our study!
9That it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
It's funny that the same things people said in Job's day are being said today. "Why God? Why do you hate me?" or "There can't be a God, because a loving God wouldn't do this (or allow this)!"
There is a difference between a believer wrestling with the "why me" and an unbeliever wrestling with the "why me".
I see very frequently the believer (like Job) crying out in agony. Maybe each of us has been there too. We have to validate that feeling, that cry of distress, that pleading with God not to abandon, punish, hate, and cut us off of his favor. It is a cry of faith - an anguished cry of faith, but a cry of faith nonetheless. Remember, even Jesus cried out in agony, "Why have you forsaken me?"
9That it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
ReplyDeleteIt's funny that the same things people said in Job's day are being said today. "Why God? Why do you hate me?" or "There can't be a God, because a loving God wouldn't do this (or allow this)!"
There is a difference between a believer wrestling with the "why me" and an unbeliever wrestling with the "why me".
ReplyDeleteI see very frequently the believer (like Job) crying out in agony. Maybe each of us has been there too. We have to validate that feeling, that cry of distress, that pleading with God not to abandon, punish, hate, and cut us off of his favor. It is a cry of faith - an anguished cry of faith, but a cry of faith nonetheless. Remember, even Jesus cried out in agony, "Why have you forsaken me?"
This is true...a big difference between the two "why mes?" Unfortunately, this ends up being a reason why many abandon their faith.
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