GOD NEVER EXPLAINS
God never explains to us what he is doing or why. There is no indication that God ever explained to Job the reasons for all of his terrible sufferings. As readers, we are taken behind the scenes to observe the spiritual warfare between God and Satan, but as far as we can tell from Scripture, God never told Job about that… we must conclude that God had a much higher purpose in allowing Satan’s onslaughts against Job than merely using Job as a pawn in a “wager” between himself and Satan… …the story concludes with a conversation between God and Job in which Job acknowledges that through his trials he has come into a new and deeper relationship with God… …We may conclude that this deeper relationship was one — but probably not all — of the results God had in mind all along. From Trusting God, by Jerry Bridges, published by Nav Press, Colorado Springs, 1988, pgs. 122 & 123
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