Job and the Problem of Suffering (Continued) Job 22:1-30, 23:1-17, 24:1-25
"Is not your wickedness great?Are not your sins endless?"Eliphaz to Job, Job 22:5
C'mon, admit it. Those of us who follow the Lord, don't we somehow secretly think in the deepest core of our being that our blessings are deserved from God? Or, maybe, we just act that way. And the poor, the dirty and embarrassingly smelly, disheveled people we see hanging out at the downtown McDonald's with a single order of coffee spiked with heaps and heaps of sugar, don't we somehow secretly think in the deepest core of our being that they somehow deserve their lack of blessings? Or, at least, act like we do.
Because if that isn't true. Why do we cling so tightly to what we have and share so little? Do we believe God gives resources to people or makes people the conduit of resource?
This isn't meant as a guilt trip for anyone...but me.
Lord knows. And Lord forgive me.
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