Sermon 63, Job 16:10-17
“I have my store of good things when it pleases me to show my grace and love toward men. Indeed, I have the means needed for their welfare, not in human terms, for my means are incomprehensible”.
I am confused. I could stop there. But what am I specifically confused about this morning? I am confused as to how God’s comforts for us in this life are potentially incomprehensible. That he will afflict us in order to put us through His school and that the appropriate response to that is that we should go to Him in prayer and glorify Him. It seems very much like, and I think that this is the true point, we are to assume misery in this life, and that everything we do is to ensure the next life is better. But that makes this life even more depressing.