Job Had It Worse: Finding Perspective in Suffering

I hope everyone had a great long weekend! I did some traveling to keep my mind occupied and in doing so spent some time in the word. I was beginning to start to feel like everything was crashing down on me and I was getting the “why me” syndrome. I’m sure you know it. We begin to think we are the only one suffering or going through loss. We aren’t. Not even close. Then I had this thought;Job had is worse! You see, many years ago I was down in Baja Mexico racing and a buddy was belly aching about how everything was so hard for him and after a day or two of this I responded to him, “Jim, Job had I’d worse.” Because he did, way worse. Job lost everything, his wealth, his family, his livestock, all of it gone in a short time. Even his health started getting pretty bad near the end, and the hardest part about all this is that God allowed it to happen despite the fact that Job was a great guy. We all ask ourselves at times, “How could God allow this to happen?” I can assure you Job did. A lot! But we serve a Big God, and in the Bible it tells us Gods response to this question we all have. He answered Job too. He reminds Job and us that He is crafting something far more beautiful than we could ever imagine while also working things out for His glory and our good. Though Job’s story is brutal and extreme, it reminds us that we play a small part in a gigantic narrative that God has written. Even when things don’t seem to make sense, even when they’re painful and confusing, we can rest knowing that God will never lose control. Be nice, Grace Wins.