Preaching And Reading The Old Testament Lessons
Our sometimes sentimental, always lenient religious faith bumps up against this text for the morning. Here we have a man named Job who has suffered horribly. He has lost everything he loved and of worth to him, his family, his friends (who turned out to be no friends at all), his material goods and home, his esteemed name in his community, his health, and even his physical appearance. We would expect, therefore, that the Lord God's approach to such a suffering man would be one of compassion and tenderness, like a good shepherd caring for a crippled lamb. But no.
