August 24 How Did I Get Here？ －Job 2：1-10

It is hard to explain and accept when a catastrophe happened so suddenly. This seems beyond

our understanding and expectation. I recalled a few years back an accident occurred to a family car, in which the driver was a grandfather with three of his grandchildren in the backseat. Their car was t-boned (cutting sideways) by a sports car with a drunk driver. It was a totally unacceptable situation and absolutely insane. The entire city was shocked and a solution was figured by the Ministry of Transport and Police department how to avoid the same situation happening again. Did the grandfather do something wrong or something bad when he was alive, how about the kids of 3 years old , the 5 years and the 10 years old. Why did this tragedy happen to this family? How did the family accept all these?  We could not explain this in reasoning or any logic. Was it fate?

Job may have wondered as “he sat among the ashes” (Job 2:8). He’d lost his children, his wealth, and his health, in no time flat. He couldn’t have guessed how he got here.

Job remembered his Creator and how good He’d been. (Job 2:10)“Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?”  He remembered he could count on this good God to be faithful. So he lamented. He screamed at the heavens. And he mourned in hope, (Job 19:25–26) “I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.” Job clung on his hope as he remembered how the story began and how it ends.

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