Reflection On The Book Of Job

As I begin to read the book of Job, I began an exploration of the issue of human suffering despite God’s goodness and power throughout the ages, the questions of why people suffer and why evil continues. Then I realized that had the book of Job not been written nor this experience been given to us, there would be a lot more questions left unanswered. As I read more, I begin to find out things about God that I would not have known nor discovered in the other books of the Bible. The book of Job explains the problems of why good men are afflicted; it is in order to grow their sanctification. The word “perfect” in Job 1:1 does not mean “sinless perfection” but rather perfect in his efforts to please and bring glory to the Lord in all he did. Job was a great man, the richest man in that time. In all his efforts and doing his best, he would find to his dismay that when he measured himself up to others he looked good; but when he measured himself before God Himself he was nothing (Job 40:4). Although Job was “perfect”, God would choose Job to proclaim to us sanctification. Job was not an unconverted man but rather a converted man. The book didn’t …show more content…
Job 3:11 says, "why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?" Like many people today, they are where Job was. He wanted to die and that was his request to the Lord. Many Christians are pressed to the point that they will request of God what is not of God 's Will. God would not answer Job 's prayer, He had something far better for Job than death. Satan had one thing in mind, but God had entirely another. Through Job and the terrible trial which he endured, we will learn God 's Way, which is not man 's