Susanna's Rescue: In the Whirlwind of Disaster

Job’s attitude is, “I cannot understand why God has allowed these things to happen; what He is doing hurts desperately, but I believe that He is honorable, a God of integrity, and I will stick to it that in the end it will be made absolutely clear that He is a God of love and justice and truth."

Nothing is taught in the book of Job, but there is a deep, measured sense of someone understanding. This man was buffeted and stripped of all he held dear, but in the whirlwind of disaster he remained unblameable, that is, undeserving of censure by God.”

A healthy-minded man bases his life on actual conditions, but let him be hit by bereavement, and when he has got beyond the noisy bit and the blasphemous bit, he will find, as Job found, that despair is the basis of human life unless a man accepts a revelation from God and enters into the kingdom of Jesus Christ.

The sense of the irreparable is one of the greatest agonies in human life. Adam and Eve entered into the sense of the irreparable when the gates of Paradise clanged behind them...There are things in life which are irreparable; there is no road back to yesterday.

The basis of things is not rational, common sense tells him it is not; the basis of things is tragic, and the Bible reveals that the only way out is through the redemption.

It is always well to note the things in life that your explanations do not cover. Job is facing a thing too difficult for him to solve or master; he realizes that there is no way out.

Real suffering comes when a man’s statement of his belief in God is divorced from his personal relationship to God. 

The world sits at the feet of Christ

Unknowing, blind, and unconsoled;

It yet shall touch His garment’s fold,

And feel the heavenly Alchemist

Transform its very dust to gold.

—Whittier

Excerpt From: Oswald Chambers. “Our Ultimate Refuge.”