It got worse for Job. It didn’t get better, it got worse. He was faithful, he worshipped God, and yet it only got worse. Have you ever had this experience? You seek God in your distress, you worship God; perhaps you even find him in that place. You expect, then, that things will get better because, after all, you are with God. But things get worse. God goes with you, but the road goes deeper into darkness just when you thought there was no deeper place to go. This was Job’s experience. He had lost all his possessions and even his children. Already, when I read this much, I barely want to imagine the suffering of this man. But it got worse. Job himself was struck with a terrible, painful skin disease. At this point, even his wife turned on him and Job was alone, very alone, in that terrible isolation that suffering creates. So, Job suffered. And all of heaven looked on in tense silence, waiting for his response. “Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” That is what Job said to his wife. In other words: “Shall we not let God be God?” Never was there a moment in which God was glorified in a person more than this; never, except on one occasion. For God himself would become a man, Jesus Christ, and, in him, would suffer even more grievously than Job. And he did this to save us from the greatest suffering of all: the consequences of our sin.
Christ died so that you could know God. Ask God to give you what he paid so dearly for.
Read Job 2 again
