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For those who do not know,
towards the end of the book, Job is praying and asking God basically
WHY ME?
I DID EVERYTHING I WAS SUPPOSED TO DO...
WHY ARE YOU LETTING THIS HAPPEN?
God basically responds
WHO ARE YOU TO QUESTION ME?
I MADE EVERYTHING.
I KNOW AND SEE EVERYTHING.
AND YOU DO NOT.
We cannot have all the answers.
We did not create ourselves.
We did not create this universe.
WE DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW THE HECK OR WHY WE ARE HERE!
But we sure like to try and figure things out.
It is one thing to try and figure out our own lives.
But trying to figure out another person's misfortune should not be our place at all.
God says
I KNOW AND SEE EVERYTHING.
AND YOU DO NOT.
If we cannot even figure out our own lives, how on earth will we try and figure out someone else's?
DO YOU WANT TO HEAR THE END OF THE STORY?
JOB GETS MORE KIDS
MORE MONEY: MORE CROPS, MORE ANIMALS
MANY MANY MANY TIMES MORE THAN HE EVEN HAD BEFORE ALL OF THIS.
I bet his friends were then asking:
HOW CAN WE GET WHAT JOB HAS?
Instead of the previous
HOW CAN WE AVOID WHAT JOB HAS?
Kinda funny, huh? I think it's a little bit funny.
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