lessons from Job

Sometimes it seems hard for me to read the book of Job and know what to think of the different characters and what they say. But some things we learn for certain:

God is the sovereign controller of all things. He does as He pleases in Heaven and earth. We as creatures have no right to demand of God an explanation for His actions, and He might never disclose to us why He has put us through deep waters.

Circumstances cannot tell us if God loves us; we cannot read God's mind toward us by our circumstances. Job's friends read his circumstances to mean that Job had brought on his trials by sin (which was untrue); Job read his circumstances to mean that God was unjust (which was also untrue).

But we can always know who God is: that God is always wise, always just, always loving, no matter what the circumstances seem to say otherwise. We may not understand God's ways in this life. But He will always in the end be proven to be the unchanging, faithful God, who does all things well.