| Will a man worship and serve Jehovah
when there is no reward? when he has been afflicted so severely
that he feels nothing worse could be done against him and even death
would be an advantage?
This book provides the answer. The patience
of Job did not preserve him from all sin, but Job courageously held
on to God through all his trials. He brushes off his friends and
their ignorant attempts at comfort. But he never turns his back
on God.
L. A. Mott’s Thinking Through
Job guides a student through all the complexities of Job’s
plight to the final resolution and brings us to shout “Hallelujah!”
to a God who is worthy to be worshipped even without reward and
despite undeserved suffering. Thus Satan is exposed as a slanderer
and the magnificence of Jehovah is declared. The suffering of Job
provided him with his best opportunity to bring glory to God; and
so it may be with many another sufferer whose faithfulness manifests
Jehovah’s greatness.
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