Job 32-37
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Elihu who? Job and
the three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, have been conversing back and
forth for a while now. Out of
nowhere comes Elihu. He has
apparently been there the whole time just listening and now decides to
speak. It is interesting that when
God rebukes the friends at the end of the book, He does not include Elihu. Elihu is the first to point out that
God is not necessarily punishing Job.
“God may use suffering to teach or instruct and thus ultimately to
bless!” (Discovery Bible).
I felt God leading me to another story in the Bible after I read
this today. The story in the New Testament
where Jesus heals a man born blind:
“As he went along, he saw a man blind
from birth. His disciples asked
him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
‘Neither this man nor his parents
sinned,’ said Jesus, ‘but this happened so that the work of God might be
displayed in his life.”
(John 9:1-3)
People always want to know the why to suffering. Maybe sometimes God will reveal the
why; maybe sometimes we won’t understand the why on this side of heaven. But these words from Jesus can bring
comfort and strengthen faith: “this happened so that the work of God might be
displayed in his life.”
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