My Worldview Has Been Broken!

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In the very first chapter of the Book of Job, our hero loses everything he has. He loses all his wealth through murderous attacks upon him by his enemies, and then he loses his family through an apparent act of God (Job 1:13-19). Job’s reaction was to accept it all as from the Lord. After he was destroyed, Job said: “Blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:20-21)! While folks who heard Job’s reaction might think he was a holy and religious man, we need to consider the fact that the text really doesn’t say Job spoke to God, but only about him. He never addressed the Lord over what was done, only that the Lord had done all those things, but he (Job) would accept it all, just as he had accepted all the good things, the Lord had given him over the years (cp. Job 2:10).