Sin results in dust, but God has a restoration plan in place.
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| Thrive by Daniel Popper, photo: Marianna Smiley |
THE BOOK OF Job is one of contrasts. You see the uprightness of Job juxtaposed with the evil of Satan. Job is wealthy and healthy one moment then brought to poverty and disease in the next. But perhaps the biggest contrasts we see are the stark differences between expectation and Job's reality.
Job's friends expect that only the wicked should suffer, so they blame him for his problems.
Job knows he's innocent, but he eventually gives up trying to convince his friends and instead starts petitioning God for answers. Job essentially holds the same expectations his friends have, which renders his downtrodden reality all the more puzzling considering his blamelessness. It's the classic, Why do bad things happen to good people? question that just about every human everywhere throughout time has asked at one point or another.
In the midst of these petitions, Job asks God the following:
