05/20/2026
A few of us guys in recovery have been studying the Bible together for the past few years. I love their insights. Recently we started looking at the book of Job. It’s a challenging book to say the least. A quick snapshot: Job has everything, prosperity, thousands of sheep, camels and other livestock, a large family, many servants, and a relationship with God. Then one day, it’s all gone. No more children, servants, livestock, herdsman. Physically, Job’s health deteriorates; he is covered with painful boils— yet through it all, Job continues to trust God.
Three of Job’s friends (if you can call them that) offer unsolicited advice on why this is happening. They even go so far as to claim Job must have done something to deserve all this.
Don’t you love people who believe it is their place to tell you what to do? “Well, you know what you should do...” or “If I were you, I’d....’ Instead of sharing their experience, strength, and hope out of love, they tell you what to do.
We are not comfortable with trying to comprehend the incomprehensible. We like answers to our questions. But on this side of heaven we will not have all the answers. We get a glimpse. But we don’t know everything. There is still mystery. Many questions remain. Only God knows exactly why things happen as they do.
One takeaway of Job is to “trust God.” Job shares in chapter 19, “I know that my redeemer lives and at last He will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has been destroyed, then from my flesh I will see God.”
Who do you trust, especially when things don't go as planned?
–Pastor Kalland
