Similarities Between The Book Of Job Night And A Brief Observed

Wherever life takes a bad turn, we blame anyone and anything but ourselves. Whether it be in traffic, at work, or even more serious matters like disease and death among family or close friends. The ultimate question is who is to blame in these situations? In the realm of religion, the question on whether to blame God often comes into play. In the readings of The Book of Job, Night, and A Grief Observed, and the Biblical Responses to Evil Handout, we encounter different ways to view God in both desired and undesirable circumstances and how God interacts with our sufferings. In order for one to know where God is when they are going through hardships, they must have a good understanding of what it means to believe in God and his justice.
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Lewis. A Grief Observed is Lewis’s reflection on his faith in the midst of the lost of his true love, H. Lewis questions God’s goodness and if He is ambivalent to his creatures. He wonders why he would take away H. after only three years of their time together. Lewis wonders if Jesus’s last words on the cross were correct in the realm of God forsaking him. H. and Lewis had a very intellectual relationship, and H. herself had a very realistic outlook on life and religion, which makes her absence even more troublesome. Lewis begins to apply his wife’s realistic view of the world to his own faith by questioning if he needs to knock down the “house of cards” that he has built based on his relationship with God and start a new, more practical way of believing in the justice of God. The book moves on from Lewis’s grief and struggle to a level of acceptance. He begins to remember his wife in happiness, without painful feelings attached to her memory. Although he acknowledges the pain he felt, he observes it in a different way. Lewis compares the healing to that of an amputated leg in regards that there is so much healing beyond just the closing of the wound and the wound itself will never be completely healed. Lewis also learns to accept the idea that H’s death was all apart of God’s “plan,” which when people used to tell him that would often upset him. He has realized that God uses peoples pain to inspire them to trust Him as He is, and to use Him as comfort. He begins to realize that not all of his question will be answered and that he has learned to accept no answer at all. The pain of H’s loss will never truly leave Lewis’s heart, but he cultivated a new way to accept the question of “Where God is in a world full of people