Suffering & the Example of Job, Part 5 (TMF:2171)

Monday, September 04, 2023
Peace to Live By: Suffering & the Example of Job, Part 5 (TMF:2171) - Daniel Litton
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       So, yes, this is about the most extreme example we can find in the Bible of human suffering. James cuts to the chase. This seems to bring up the point that I introduced at the beginning of our study here. That is, “All that matters is God.” That phrase certainly fits in well here. It’s the only way that Job could survive his ordeal. This is because if Job had valued all the other things too much, then he would have really lost. He would have really lost because there would have been things that were of a permanent loss, and what I mean is an unrecoverable loss. But because all that mattered was God, Satan really, at the end of the day, couldn’t do anything to Job that would make him truly lose. This is a hard teaching. But it is what I have been saying all along. The lower a person is the levels of consciousness, the harder it is to bear. The higher a person is, the greater the understanding of God and how things work, so the greater the endurance we will see.