“My Days Have No Meaning” (Job 7:16d)

June 8, 2008

Was Job right? He was, I have no doubt, right about his feelings. His losses seemed to have no meaning from his vantage point. Sitting on the trash pile, thinking about his children, his wife, his isolation, his “miserable comforters,” and his future prospects, it would be well-nigh impossible for him to find meaning in […]

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Be a Comforter, not an Interpreter

May 25, 2008

Given my discussion of the “why” question in the last few posts, I want to offer a caution to would-be comforters. Here is some advice from a sufferer. We don’t know what God is doing in a person’s life.  We don’t know the reason “this” or “that” happened. We don’t know for certain whether there is a reason […]

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