July 9, 2022: Day 145 – Job 8-10 and Romans 6-8

Once again a friend of Job speaks and once again reminds him that God is just and does not make the rain fall on the just and the unjust, but rather that we reap what we sow.  If we are experiencing hardship and suffering then it must be a result of how we are living which is against God’s will.  Again, this is not what we find in Scripture but it is what we find in common culture that we are rewarded for clean living and punished for our sin here and now on this earth.  That simply is not how God works and that simply is not what we see happening around us.  Job was innocent as much as any person could be innocent, but he still suffered hardship and calamity and tragedy.

Paul has a bit of an answer for that when he states in 8:18 that he considers his present suffering not even comparable to the glory that we will be inheriting in the future.  He goes on and states in 8:28 – “and we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”  Romans 8 has too many memory verses than any one chapter should have.  Here is another one in 8:37ff – “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.  For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, no anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”