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A review by sweetheart_seer
The Book of Job by Stephen Mitchell
5.0
This is a hard book of the bible to read.
It brings up a lot of questions. Like why would God have let Satan hurt his child like that? To prove a point? To test him like that until Job broke down?
It is a difficult road of thoughts to go down. Yet, it shows that sin doesn't correlate to pain. God does answer pray even if He seems silent during the worst of it, He is still with us.
It is ultimately a book of hope.
We see Job stand up for God, cry out to Gid, worship, despair, wish he had never been born, feel anguish, be discouraged, rise up hope, and hear from God Himself.
God responds with questions to Job.
Basically a who do you think you are to question me? Did you create the world? Kind of thing. Which at first seems very harsh. Then though? Then you start to realize that God loves. God gives and God takes away, and God is the almighty!
The book of Job has a happy ending.
Job lives a nice long life, he gets to see four generations of children, he gets to have comfort back again.
We see through Job that we CAN draw closer to God through our pain and suffering by running to Him. Never forsaking Him. Finding our strength in and through Him. We can find comfort that even though we may not understand the pain now? Maybe God is working to bless us and enrich us so much more if we just keep holding on. Pruning us for our harvest. Pushing us so we can see Hus strength in us.
This is a powerful book.
My personal favorite of the entire old testament.
It brings up a lot of questions. Like why would God have let Satan hurt his child like that? To prove a point? To test him like that until Job broke down?
It is a difficult road of thoughts to go down. Yet, it shows that sin doesn't correlate to pain. God does answer pray even if He seems silent during the worst of it, He is still with us.
It is ultimately a book of hope.
We see Job stand up for God, cry out to Gid, worship, despair, wish he had never been born, feel anguish, be discouraged, rise up hope, and hear from God Himself.
God responds with questions to Job.
Basically a who do you think you are to question me? Did you create the world? Kind of thing. Which at first seems very harsh. Then though? Then you start to realize that God loves. God gives and God takes away, and God is the almighty!
The book of Job has a happy ending.
Job lives a nice long life, he gets to see four generations of children, he gets to have comfort back again.
We see through Job that we CAN draw closer to God through our pain and suffering by running to Him. Never forsaking Him. Finding our strength in and through Him. We can find comfort that even though we may not understand the pain now? Maybe God is working to bless us and enrich us so much more if we just keep holding on. Pruning us for our harvest. Pushing us so we can see Hus strength in us.
This is a powerful book.
My personal favorite of the entire old testament.