Job 42:1-6
Job Listened to God's Questions
1 Then Job replied to the Lord:
2 “I know that you can do all things;
no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.
4 “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.’
5 My ears had heard of you
but now my eyes have seen you.
6 Therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes.”
Matthew 6:9-10
God's Will
9 "This, then, is how you should pray:
" 'Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
John 1:1-4
All Things are Made Through Jesus
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
Is there something Divine in Redemptive Suffering?...Many times I have prayed and my prayers have remained unanswered...Sometimes the prayers are for my sufferings and sometimes they are prayers for my family or friend's suffering...I like Job wonder where He is at in my time of need for my family, friends, and me...
And in this respect, I can relate to Job...And like Job, Jesus suffered...But Jesus suffered in a different way, and He suffered for the whole world...But, it seems to me that Job realized that God is God and his eyes were opened to this after He saw God...Job says that my ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you...And at that moment Job realized that God can and could do and does know that all things; and that no purpose of God's can be thwarted...
Author Christopher Ash writes this about Job and Jesus, “There is a terrible divine necessity about redemptive suffering...God is doing something so ultimately wonderful that unanswered prayer is the necessary price of achieving it, and Job begins to experience this...His prayers will be answered, but only when his sufferings have achieved that for which God purposes them...In a deeper way it was the same for Jesus Christ...In a similar way it is yet the same for Christian people today; when God remains silent in answer to our urgent cries, it is not that he does not hear, but rather that it is somehow necessary for us to cry in vain and wait in hope until He achieves in us, and in His world, what He wills to achieve.”...
God's Will gets done on earth as it does in heaven...And that is something that Job did learn but Jesus knew this from the very beginning...