Often-times people blame God for misfortunes and disasters, but I wonder if that's true. Even in Job's case, God himself didn't cause Job's troubles; they were caused by Satan. But, you say, God allowed it, so it's his fault because he could have stopped it; however, God allows all of us to sin and most of those sins cause harm to others as well as to ourselves, and God still allows the sins.
God REDEEMED Job's sufferings, and those of his family and friends who had been caught up in what Satan did to Job, and strengthened them all so that their final condition was better than their first - in spite of everything Satan could do! (
See Job 42).
And God redeems our sufferings, whether caused by our own sins or by someone else's sins, and uses them to strengthen us so that our final situation is better than the first. That's true even if we die -- or ESPECIALLY if we die Christian deaths.
Dave
Biden and Obama: Tweedle dumb and tweedle dumber.