earlier, i finished the book of job with a very strange reaction: job’s story gave me intense satisfaction and peace.
why? because, as much as we want to find meaning in our suffering, sometimes we can’t. like job, we can’t see into god’s mind. like job, when things go bad, we wonder why god is doing this to us. when we’re serving him with all our hearts, we wonder why he lets things go wrong.
and the book of job tells me the only reason i can understand: god is putting his handiwork on display. sometimes things go wrong and the only reason we can know for sure is that god is 