Reflections

¹There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil.

 2Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.

 3His possessions also were 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and very many servants; and that man was the greatest of all the men of the east.  Job 1:1-3

Job is an interesting book to study in the bible.  It is a book that is not really related to any other book in the Old Testament.  There is no mention of Israel or the Law of Moses.  The focus is on a man named Job, it is a book that really speaks volumes about the sovereignty of God, but never really answers the age old question “why do bad things happen to good people?”

The bible says Job was a good man.  He was blameless, upright and he feared God and stayed away from evil.  We also know Job was a wealthy man.  He was a man that was blessed by God and highly favored by God and men.

One of the problems in looking at the book of Job is that we try to figure out why all these horrible things happened to Job.  If he was such a good man, then why did God allow Job to lose everything?  This is not the purpose of Job.  It is not our job to analyze the character of Job, but what we can learn about is how to maintain our faith in times of suffering, and how to never lose site that, whatever happens, God is in control.

The one thing we should keep in mind is that Job never lost favor with God, on the contrary, Job was highly favored of God and there was no one in all the earth like him.  Let’s see what we can learn from the story of Job.