Part of the Process

Job 1 to 4

Episode 141 on the Read and Rant Podcast

It was great to be back today, after almost two weeks of recovery! We started the book of Job. What our reading today exposed is the tendency for us to equate pain with punishment and pleasure with reward. But in this reading Job is a righteous man but he is enduring almost every category of pain imaginable. His wise friend Eliphaz thinks as most of us do when He said “...who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright ever cut off?” (Job‬ ‭4:7) Often we go through pain, not because of what we’ve done but because it is part of the process.