Four passages and a short devotional a day to take you through the whole Bible in one year — right alongside your Spirit Church family.
Real questions from Spirit readers on this passage, answered by our pastors.
Today you meet the Bible's hardest book and its most honest man. Job loses everything in a single afternoon, and his first move is to tear his robe, fall to the ground, and worship.
The next forty chapters will ask why the innocent suffer, and they will refuse every easy answer. Bring your real questions in with you. This book was built to hold them.
Job never heard chapter one. He suffered without the courtroom transcript you were handed, which means every word of his worship was flying blind. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away, blessed be the name of the LORD, spoken by a man with no explanation and ten fresh graves.
That is the book's opening argument: faith that only works with full information is not faith. And the friends preached their best sermon in silence, seven days of just being there. Both examples will be tested hard in the chapters ahead. Hold onto them now.