Personal relationships are born of personal experience. He didn’t know why he had been afflicted, but he was sure it was not judgment for sin. They were sure that Job’s affliction was due to Job’s sin. God was confident Job would not turn away from Him because of affliction because Job didn’t just know about God, that God gives good things, but Job knew God, and that adversity comes from Him too. God took up the challenge, because He knew Job, and knew Job knew Him. What happened to Job was a result of Satan’s accusation that Job feared God because God gave him good things. His friends insisted he was obviously guilty or he wouldn’t have received such harsh treatment from God. When the conversation finally began, Job declared his innocence before God, and that he had been treated unjustly. Three of his friends came to visit and comfort him, and sat silently with him for a week. He ended up sitting in ashes, covered with sores, scratching himself with a broken piece of pottery. He lost everything except his life and his wife. Yet, in a matter of days Job’s world was turned completely upside down. It’s easy to let knowledge get in the way of knowing, really knowing someone.ĭo you know the story of Job? Job was an upstanding man-a man with lots of wealth, possessions, family members, and friends. We sometimes never get to the purpose of Bible study, to engage in relationship with God, to know God personally. Do you know God, or do you just know about Him? What does that mean? We get caught up in reading or hearing about God from others, and just know about Him.
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