05/19/2026
IN ATTEMPS TO UNDERSTAND EVIL AND SUFFERING
"He will wipe away every tear from their eyes" (Rev. 21:4). There will come one day a personal and direct touch from God when every tear and perplexity, every oppression and distress, every suffering, and pain and wrong and injustice will have a complete and ample and overwhelming explanation. The Christian faith is exhibited by the man who has the spiritual courage to say that that is the God he trusts in. (Oswald Chambers)
After losing all of his possessions and his ten adult children, Job said: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away, blessed be the name of the LORD." (Job 1:21)
After losing his health, and having painful sores from his feet to his head, and having his wife say to him, "curse God and die," Job said: "Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil/disaster?" (Job 2:10)
In the end God answers Job's cry out prayers by speaking directly to him, and questioning him. Job's response is one of confession and repentance: "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.... Therefore, I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.... I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; and I repent in dust and ashes." (Job 42:2-6).
God purposed and allowed Job's horrific suffering, revealing Himself to Job as Job had never seen or known Him before. Job was getting a miniscule glimpse of the sufferings of his Redeemer. That's how in the midst of his suffering Job was able to cry out: "For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he shall stand upon the earth." (Job 19:25)