Job, suffering, and spiritual growth
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The Director’s CutThe
Hollywood Ending
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth;
Job 19:25 (NRSV)
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth;
Job 19:25 (NRSV)
The Director’s CutThe
Hollywood Ending
PAIN AND THE PROCESS OF SPIRITUAL GROWTH
• fornication, • impurity, • licentiousness, • idolatry, • sorcery, • enmities, • strife, • jealousy, • anger, • quarrels, • dissensions, • factions, • envy, • drunkenness, • carousing, • and things like these.
The Works of the FleshGalatians 5:19-21
They enslave us,Put us to sleep,
And lead to pain and suffering
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in
our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
Three Perspectives on Wisdom
Do good = the good lifeDo evil = pain and suffering
The contract with God
(see also Deuteronomy 30:11-20)
Proverbs
This is the
suffering of Job
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?”
“Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?”
“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”