For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

"How to become good without really trying"

 Dear Gentle reader,

The purpose of the Book of Job is not to answer your question "Why do bad things happen to good people" although I dare say in the reading you may find a solution, but at best it is a interim solution, not by any means the final solution. Suffering is so common that many never give it a thought of how those who suffer feel!

The purpose of the book is to give those who are capable of learning a chance to see beyond the mist and behind the suffering what lies for all. That is the is a divine purpose and what suffering and pain exercise is a gracious ministry for the godly (those who can see beyond the material into what we call the spiritual. Did you know Gentle Reader, that science has now evidence that our brain is "hardwired" to have an understanding of the existence of God. Don’t faint just because there are those who claim that since God can not be found by "scientific evidence" He can not exist! Sorry boys but if you could prove by "scientific evidence God exist then He would be much of a God, now would He?

Behind all the suffering of the godly is a high purpose of God, and beyond it all is an "afterwards" of glorious enrichment. Such suffering as we learn from This Book of Job, is not judicial, but remedial; not punitive, but corrective; not retributive, but disciplinary; not a penalty, but a ministry.

This Book and the central message of Job then may be expressed as: "BLESSING THROUGH SUFFERING" Through bitter calamity comes blessed discovery . The Book is a grand illustration of the Apostle Paul’s words. "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28 )

Get your head around this Gentle Reader, and get a hold of the concept that you are being transformed into very image of Christ who is the fullness of the invisible God.

Till next time,

Love,

Denis