God of the winds and the rain, the snow and the sunshine
So here I am. In a very different place to yesterday. Still finding a way to trust the God of the universe. Here’s what I put on Facebook earlier – When I said goodbye...
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Trusting the God of the universe
This feels like a hurricane. Right here. I’m all alone in my Dad’s house waiting to go visit him later, having spent most of yesterday with him. He’s in hospital. He’s suffering. It isn’t...
In the eye of the storm
This has been a tough journey so far. Thirty seven chapters of unrelenting intensity. A tense conversation backwards and forwards between a suffering Job and his well-meaning friends. And now we come to this....
Five tough questions
So let’s see what else Elihu has to say in chapters 35-37 of the Book of Job. Elihu: So Job, consider this. How fair is it that you claim to be right (and that God...
Embrace your pain
Enter Elihu. We haven’t met him before. He’s been waiting in the wings. Watching. Listening. Growing more and more impatient with Job and his friends. So these three men stopped answering Job, because he...
Job’s summing up
The next three chapters – Job 29 to 31 – are entitled Job’s final discourse. This is his summing up, his conclusion, his way of stating his case in its entirety. So let’s have a...
Where can wisdom be found?
We have come to an interlude. A welcome break in Job’s tortuous conversation back and forth with his three friends. They’ve covered the same territory over and over again. Wrestled with the same questions....
When you don’t agree with what I’m doing….
Job 25 is a very short chapter. Only 6 verses. It’s Bildad’s next response to Job. Bildad: God is awesome! Totally awesome! He rules over everything. He’s in charge of all that exists. No one...
When God seems far away
Chapter 22. Eliphaz again. I wonder how many of you are still with me. Eliphaz: Do you think any of us can actually add anything to God? He doesn’t need us to make Him look...
Why me and not them?
And so the conversation back and forth continues. Job 20 sees another response to Job from his friend Zophar. Zophar: Sorry, Job, I can’t keep quiet. I can’t keep what I’m thinking to myself. I’m...
