I can't blame him for feeling this way but I was reading Tom V.W. post on this and it made me think about this from God's perspective and how silly he must sound. We are His children, can you really imagine tormenting your children? No of course God isn't slapping him around. Now on the flip side if I had the power to prevent my kids from experiencing pain like this would I step in? It seems like the answer is yes, God certainly has this power so why doesn't He intervene in all bad situations?
A question I hope to gain more insight in as we journey through Job.
knut
A question I hope to gain more insight in as we journey through Job.
knut
I think a lot of people ask those same questions that you posed. 2 things come to mind.
ReplyDelete1. Do you think satan would have even cared about Job if he wasn't REALLY trying to live a righteous life? Nope! The tallest tree catches the wind. The evil one will do more to the strong believer to distract them, than he will someone who is oblivious. He doesn't need to focus on them, they are already lost.
2. God never promised us a pain free life with him. In fact, as we've read many times.....it says that we are foreigners in this land. It will always be difficult if we don't belong. In fact sometimes, I think......the pain is to remind us that this life isn't IT. We can't focus on this life and forego the next.