Job 6-9, God in a Box. Both Job and Bildad state some things about God today that reflect a limited understanding of who God is. Job says that the pain inflicted upon Him is from God and is unjustified. We’ll see Job return to this theme as he continues to defend himself through the repeated accusations of his friends. The second repeated theme is in Bildad’s discourse as he accuses Job of some sin that he is being punished for. Both men say some things about God that are correct, but they make assumptions from their limited perspective that are not correct. The simplify Job’s situation as a black and white scenario when in fact there is lots of grey in the world… grey that can only be made sense of by trusting God’s got something He can bring out of the current “bad” to be some type of “good”.
Father, forgive me for the times I put you in a box, when I rely on my limited understanding to be the entire picture. Expand my faith to trust you even in the dark and even in the grey. You are faithful and true. I put all my hope in you. In Jesus’ Name.
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