The Book of Job Leads People from Explanation to the Voice of God
- より子 逆瀬川
- 3 days ago
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Job — Final Reflection
Job continued to ask questions.
Why is there suffering?
Why does God remain silent?
Why do the righteous suffer?
His friends gave explanations.
Sin.
Retribution.
The righteousness of God.
Each of them spoke
about God.
Job also spoke.
Of his own righteousness.
Of suffering.
Of a reality he could not understand.
Of a silent God.
Elihu declared:
God has already been speaking.
But in the end,
the Lord Himself speaks.
From within the storm.
The Lord does not explain
the reason for suffering.
He does not organize
the structure of the world.
He does not unravel
the logic of cause and effect.
Instead,
He asks a question.
“Where were you
when I laid the foundations of the earth?”
(Job 38:4)
The sea.
The light.
The darkness.
The stars.
The beasts.
Leviathan.
The Lord speaks
as the Creator of the world.
People try to understand.
They try to explain.
They try to organize everything.
But the Lord first brings people
to stand before Him.
Job did not understand everything.
Yet he became one
who stood before the Lord.
“I had heard of You
by the hearing of the ear.
But now
my eyes have seen You.”
The Book of Job
is not a manual explaining suffering.
It is a book
that leads people
beyond human understanding and explanation,
into the presence of God's voice.
The question,
“Where were you?”
calls people back
from explanation
to the presence of God.
God speaks.
And people respond
before Him.
The Book of Job leads people from explanation to the voice of God.
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