Suffering Beyond our Ken
Job 38:1-4,8-11; Psalm 107; 2 Corinthians 5:14-17; Mark 4:35-41
"If God is God, he is not good. If God is good, he is not God." This refrain rings, not only throughout the remarkable play which retells the Job story, J.B. written by Archibald MacLeish, but in the lives of so many people throughout human history. It becomes a refrain for spiritually alive people at some point on their journey. So it was for Job, the righteous and most blessed of human beings.