“Learning to accept everything that sifts through the sovereignty of God’s hands is the main takeaway from Job, says Lisa Harper, author of Lifeway’s recent study on Job. If we trust that our God is good and he does good – even when life is really bad- hardship won’t make us bitter, it will actually make us better.”
I love what she says later on, “Through the book Job I have constructed a theological framework by which to consider God’s allowance of suffering so that I don’t lose her hope in the ditch of despair, sully my soul in the mud of moralism, trade my peace for the anguish of over-analysis, or harden my heart in the cement of cynicism.”
Yes, yes and yes. My heart resonates with this so much.
Picture our God’s hands allowing what he knows is best to be purposefully infiltrated in our life. Sometimes it’s a refining process of taking something out of our lives and sometimes it’s a process of adding something in our lives. He gives and he takes away. Remembering the hands of the sifter will give us great comfort when we truly deep down believe he is good in all he does.
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