Job - Trust God even when You are suffering

What a wonderful testimony to God’s grace and faithfulness to you. He is working in your life and it is exciting to see. Change comes with struggle and difficulty, but it does come. I think you will be able to move forward as God guides your decisions.

I read from Timothy Keller’s book on Proverbs every day. Here is another section—actually about Job—that you may find interesting.

“Like Job, we too get no full explanation for our suffering. Yet we know what Job did not—that God joined us here in our darkness, and that, though truly, perfectly innocent, he perished. Jesus also experienced the absence of God, the betrayal of friends, physical agony, and nakedness. In Gethsemane, Jesus saw that if he obeyed God fully, he ‘d be absolutely destroyed and abandoned in hell. No one else has ever faced such a situation. Jesus truly “served God for nothing.” The evil that assaulted Jesus, in the end, defeated itself. The death of Jesus for our sins means that someday God can judge and destroy all evil and suffering from the world without destroying us. This is the final answer to Job and all the Jobs of the world. When you suffer you can know that you are walking the same path Jesus walked—so you are not alone—and that path is only taking you to him. Are you withholding your full trust in God until you get an explanation for some bad thing that happened to you? In light of Jesus’ undeserved suffering for you, are you willing to let go of that demand and commit your way to him.?”