Comments on: Gettin the Job Done http://www.blog.godfidence.org/2010/01/gettin-the-job-done/ Chronicling my life with Christ Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:44:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Steve Bennett http://www.blog.godfidence.org/2010/01/gettin-the-job-done/comment-page-1/#comment-3402 Steve Bennett Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:01:16 +0000 http://www.blog.godfidence.org/?p=712#comment-3402 I'll be honest. I'm only on Chapter 17. I feel off the horse a little bit around the first of the year. I've made great strides though in the last few weeks. I've been reading about 6 to 8 chapters a day trying to catch up. Honestly, I don't see God demonstrating Christ's suffering through another. It does seem like a lot to ask from somebody to take their family and everything they have and then have their friends get "all churchy" on them. However, I was listening to a podcast from Church on the Move in Tulsa, OK. and Willie George (aka Gospel Bill) taught about how God deals with us as individuals not as a group and I have to think that this was a pretty unique way to deal with Job. I'm with you when you said that you don't see Christ in the story but I wasn't around when God hung the stars in the heavens either. I guess I'm taking away from the Book of Job is that God is God and I should always respect that. I wonder if we are looking at this from the wrong perspective. What if we look at it from Job's friends' side of the story. "This guy loves God no matter what." Just a thought. I’ll be honest. I’m only on Chapter 17. I feel off the horse a little bit around the first of the year. I’ve made great strides though in the last few weeks. I’ve been reading about 6 to 8 chapters a day trying to catch up.

Honestly, I don’t see God demonstrating Christ’s suffering through another. It does seem like a lot to ask from somebody to take their family and everything they have and then have their friends get “all churchy” on them.

However, I was listening to a podcast from Church on the Move in Tulsa, OK. and Willie George (aka Gospel Bill) taught about how God deals with us as individuals not as a group and I have to think that this was a pretty unique way to deal with Job.

I’m with you when you said that you don’t see Christ in the story but I wasn’t around when God hung the stars in the heavens either. I guess I’m taking away from the Book of Job is that God is God and I should always respect that.

I wonder if we are looking at this from the wrong perspective. What if we look at it from Job’s friends’ side of the story. “This guy loves God no matter what.” Just a thought.

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