Why do we have so much trouble in life? Here we have the story of Job, who, by all accounts, was a great man and didn't do anything to deserve the pain he was now experiencing. Yet, his life was suddenly full of trouble. We may not experience the same trouble on the level of a "Job" but we are all too familiar with "trouble." Job's first friend Eliphaz has some comments to make to Job, many of which are truth but applied to the wrong patient. Job is not experiencing this trouble because of sin. But he is experiencing trouble. Eliphaz does make a few statements that give us insight, that Job later, himself confirms. Note the following:
Job 5:7
For man is born for trouble,
As sparks fly upward.
Job says the same things later in one of his responses:
Job 14:1
“Man who is born of a woman
is few of days and full of trouble.
He comes out like a flower and withers;
he flees like a shadow and continues not.
But, even though man is destined for trouble in life the story doesn't end there. Job and Eliphaz both know that God is in the business of rescuing and restoring those who are in trouble. Man is destined for trouble so that man will learn to trust God. God allows trouble so that we are conformed to His Son (Romans 8;28-30). Note Eliphaz words below:
Job 5:18-19
“For He inflicts pain, and gives relief;
He wounds, and His hands also heal.
“ From six troubles He will deliver you,
Even in seven evil will not touch you.
We can get relief from our trouble when we walk with God. God does not leave us in trouble. Man may be born into trouble but God is there to pull us out.
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