by Cheryl Brand

Created on: October 31, 2008

Book of Job

This book is not so much about suffering as so many have thought, but it is a book about God's principles that no one can understand easily.

God is a God of order and laws. There are laws in the universe that can not be changed, and laws that God made before the foundation of the earth that can not be changed.

We have to remember that He is the potter and we are the clay.

This book is about Birth, Death and Resurrection. In that it is about birth, death and resurrection, this book is a type and reflection and forshadowing of Jesus. First birth, that we were born into the earth, second that it is about death, that we all go through a death process at the cross when Jesus died that makes us to look up and get close to our Maker and ask questions of him about our circumstances. Jesus cried "Father, Father, why hast thou forsaken me? when He was on the cross. And after the death comes resurrection - resurrection life.

This book is a carbon copy of our experience in God where we find ourselves experiencing the same or similar things as Job. We are born into this earth, and then we die with Him at the cross, and then we are born again which is the resurrection. It is a story of life and restoration. What seems to be devastation at the first, when we have painful things happen in our lives, we feel like Job but on looking further into the book you find that God is in the business of being fair and restoring what was taken and not leaving Job without- but being filled up to overflowing by a double blessing (nothing missing, nothing broken) for his (Job's), and God's faithfulness.

It would appear that in my lifetime so far, observing people and their lives that everyone goes through a "Job-like" experience and we have to decide how to deal with it and have our very own conversation with God about all these things that have come seemingly to devastate us, and try to knock us out of the game of life, and find our answers from Him on these very same matters that affected Job.

And so the conversation with God and the explanation of the book of Job is of extreme importance to us-it is the hinge of the book and also the hinge of our lives. It is where we find our sanity in complicated issues, and the answers to the riddles and questions of our lives. The seeming injustices of our lives and the perplexities the pain and the punishment and perceived imbalances. God sets everything straight and brings us up to a higher level than where we were before and creates just weights.

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