Please Don’t Ground Me!
“ Why do you confuse the issue? Why do you talk without knowing what you’re talking about? Pull yourself together, Job! Up on your feet! Stand tall! I have some questions for you, and I want some straight answers.” - Job 38:2-3 The Message - It doesn’t take much to imagine God pointing an angry finger at us. We know we are imperfect. We know we mess up. We know we miss the mark to God’s standards so much of the time. Sometimes it is so easy to imagine that we cannot do anything to make God happy. Perhaps much like our experience of angry parents, God just seems to be making our life as hard and inconvenient as possible. Maybe this is why I love the book of Job. Job is a person who has a whole book of the Bible written about his life. He literally loses everything – including his wealth, his health & even his family! Then his friends come and try to cheer him up but just end up getting into an argument with Job about what Job might have done wrong to tick ...