One of the books I least enjoyed when reading the Bible in a year was Job. Job is a good man, but God gives Satan permission to challenge Jobs motives for following God so faithfully. Satan takes away his family, wealth and health in order to make Job curse God. His ‘comforters come alongside and do very little comforting in chapter after chapter of doom and gloom. However Job remains faithful to the end and the last few chapters are amazing – but it all just seems unfair and hard and horrible.
A friend recommended a book called Code Red by Andrew J. Drain which really helped me accept the lessons of Job. Drain was a surgeon from Belfast working in New York when he was stuck down by cancer. He suffered and recovered and relapsed and in the midst of it all he taught lessons about the book of Job. He shared the John Piper quote above which I really liked.
If you want to learn more about the lessons in the book of Job you should pick up the book. It is 100 pages long and I read it in one (emotional) night. It is really worth it.
