Whenever a child of God is going through a hard time, they look through the book of Job for comfort and peace. Why is that? We know the Scriptures in whole are for our comfort, but why is Job especially a passage we turn to? Job was a God-fearing man who was given trial after trial, yet never cursed God or turned away from Him. He trusted in Him, and we should be like Job in this fact. No matter what trials and tribulations we encounter, we should never lose hope in God. But why did God allow Satan to torment His child so much? A better question that relates us to Job is why does God let good men suffer? Can we ever question God, His reasons and will? We know from Scripture that Job was one of God’s elect. Job 1:1, “There was a man in the …show more content…
He said that Job would curse God if he “touch his bone and his flesh,” that a man will give everything he has for his life. So the Lord gave permission to Satan to touch his health, but to save his life. Satan left the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with boils from “the sole of his foot unto his crown.” These boils were so painful, that Job scraped himself with a potsherd, a broken piece of ceramic material, and sat down among the ashes. His wife then comes into view and says to Job in 2:9, “Dost thou still retain thine integrity? Curse God, and die.” Now a wife is called to be a help to her husband, to love him, in sickness and in health. She is supposed to uphold him spiritually when he is in his weakest moments. But that is not what Job’s wife did at this time. She told him to curse God, just to get the pain over with, and die. If your wife or husband told you to do the easy way out, when you were dying with pain, wouldn’t you be tempted to do it? But no, Job sinned not. He called his wife a foolish woman, and did not heed her …show more content…
They sat with him for seven days and seven nights without saying anything, for “they saw that his grief was very great.” But when they did start talking, they each individually accused Job of having sinned. They said he must have done something against God to be in this much of an affliction. They didn’t comfort him or strengthen his faith with God’s word. Job told them he had not sinned, but they didn’t believe him. Elihu, a fourth person in the conversation, finally spoke after they all had, and rebuked the friends for neither answering Job’s questions nor comforting him in his trials. After that, God comes to Job out of a whirlwind, and questions Job. Job can’t answer any of these, for they are all showing God’s supreme might, power, and glory. It was to show Job that he is nothing compared to His Father. Job then responds with, “I am vile.” He realizes that his good is sinful and corrupt, and is nothing with the greatness of God. God shows His control over all nature, and that shows Job that God was in control when all of his earthly possessions were taken away from him. This comforts Job, and gives him peace, comfort, hope, and trust in
He lets Joby know that the reason he was out getting air was because he himself was crying too. The general was scared that he would not only lose him but the others life's, he just wasn’t ready for that to
In the work of The Bhagavad-gītā and the work of Job both the main protagonists of each work, Arjuna and Job, seek guidance and wisdom from their respective gods. Arjuna seek for guidance from Krishna during the war and job from his god for why he has been suffering. Each god from the works responds to their person but each respond in a different way. In the work, Bhagavad-gītā Krishna gives Arjuna a straight forward answer. On the other hand, the god in the work Job does not.
Rowlandson frequently alludes to the book of Job- drawing a parallel between herself and the perfect Christian martyr. By describing her captors in association with Hell, she casts them as, not only, enemies of the Puritans, but enemies of God as well. Rowlandson does suffer the wrath of her mistress; however, she is met with much kindness from other Natives. For example, she is even given a Bible by one of her “savage” captors (Rowlandson 263). She is offered food by many other Natives (Rowlandson 269).
But [he] doubted His absolute justice”(p.45). Conflicted on what to do, as to these horrific things happening, he believes God would not let them happen, but they are so his faith is diminishing. As labor increased so did death. Whilst a young man was being hung a man shouted “For
The Book of Job provides an example of how people should praise God by illustrating a blameless, responsible, and fearing man who will always turn away from evil. Therefore, this book presents the same man tortured by outside forces lacking the possibility to acquire help from family and friends. Throughout the reading in particular (14:11) demonstrates how there was a moment of weakness in which Job fails and ask for his death, but after all, he did not commit sin and endured waiting for his torment to banish. In addition, the book reveals how men turned against a man in need and instead judged him without understanding the sources causing his disgrace. However, the book provides a comparison in how humans behave by providing vivid examples of characters who showed behaviors illustrating how humanity functions.
“I have learned that the Father relentlessly works to reshape his blood-brought children into the likeness of his son...our task, however, is not merely to endure suffering, but to embrace it, find God on it and draw closer to him through it. Simply put, ‘There is no remedy for this darkness but to sink in it.” A quote from Bruce Demarest, found in his book Seasons of the Soul, discusses the three stages of spiritual development, orientation, disorientation, and reorientation. Disorientation is the stage where trials and sufferings are faced, but most importantly, a stage where we use our pains and sufferings to help us grow. Murray Decker explains disorientation as a stage of “lostness and dryness.”
The Bronze Serpent By:Soukeyna Diallo “The Lord blesses me and keeps me; He makes His face shine upon me and is gracious to me; the Lord looks at me and gives me peace” (Numbers 6:24-26). I have chosen the story of The Bronze Serpent. I chose this story because it is shown how God can punish you, but also forgive you and save you. The literal and historical context of this biblical story is different but also similar.
However, they failed the real true God step in to take care of the job. That why I love him, he knows when to step in our lives.
To end the story a thunderstorm rolls in and Prometheus is left chained to the rock. The Book of Job is a story about a man who “feared God and turned away from evil” (Job 1:1, ESV). He was a very wealthy man who had ten children, many livestock, and many servants. Satan speaks to God one day and God gives him permission to test Job’s faith. Satan begins by taking away Job’s children, killing his livestock,
Joe, devastated by his paralyzing injuries, has come to the conclusion that mankind is cruel. Mankind has caused him to fall into this coffin where he has it worse off than the slaves and prisoners; “He thought of them and he thought they were luckier than I am they could move they could see each other they were more nearly living than I and the were not imprisoned as securely” (page 182). Joe talks extensively about the treatment of slaves, prisoners, Jesus, and any man that is brings guilt to the reader's mind. Joe finds a reason in each story that he is worse off than they; whether it be they can die or as simple as they can hear. Joe finds them to be luckier than he is because all of the individuals he names can see, hear, walk and die; Joe has no choice except to sit and rot.
In A Long Way Gone the author, Ishmael Beah, finds himself in a struggle to stay alive after the Sierra Leonean Civil War kills his family, and he is forced to become a child soldier. Throughout the memoir, music plays an integral role in Ishmael’s life. It keeps him out of trouble as a child, before he is affected by the civil war, and it saves his life, giving him hope during his quest to survive.
In the movie ‘Heaven Is For Real’ while Todd Burpo’s son, Colton, lay on his hospital bed in critical condition, Todd becomes infuriated with God and says, “You made me suffer and I took that. You made my family suffer and I took that. Now you want to take my SON?!” How could a loving God do such a thing? This is the question most people ask when someone precious to them passes away, while they sulk and go on a ‘I Hate God’ rampage.
Progressively he slowly lost faith in God. “For the first time I felt anger rising within in me. Why should I sanctify His name” (Night 33)? He felt as though the “Almighty, the eternal, and terrible Master of the Universe” decided to not do anything to save them from their nearly certain deaths (Night 33). This attitude only continued to grow as things progressed in the camp.
This event undermined everything that Brown had believed in, namely his religion, and fundamentally broke him, causing his gloom. This is shown later in the text when “On the Sabbath Day, when the congregation were singing a holy psalm, he [Brown] could not listen because an anthem of sin rushed loudly on his ear.” This shows that he could no longer listen to and be joyfully about his religion, as all he could think about was the sad fact that everyone there was a sinner. On that fateful night in the woods Brown experiences a gathering of evil that would change his perception of life and religion.
In the article it says that Eliezer describes himself as a person who believes profoundly/strongly. The quote that is told means that throughout all the things that have happened to Eliezer he has always believed strongly in things like for instance how he believed in god in the first chapter, he bileived that god would save them all and they would servive the Holocaust. To believe profoundly means to believe strongly and agree. On chapter 1, page 1, it says that “ Why did I pray? Strange question.