Job I Love Zakia

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Zakia, I enjoyed reading your post. The book of Job I love this book. It helps us understand that it about Gods Glory and through our suffering that one is built up if they put their faith in the Lord. Bad things happen to people who seem undeserving of them. God permits things to happen for His reasons, whether we understand that reason or not. We must remember that the Lord is good, just, loving, and merciful. It took me some time to finally understand it, as a human being it is hard to look out in this world and see the righteous suffer and see the unrighteous prosper. My mother struggled with this for the longest time she couldn’t understand how a loving God would allow bad things to happen good people. My nephew barely 4 was taken from

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