Day 267..."One hundred days to go...Trying to explain suffering...Faith"

Job is a man of questions like..."But how can a man be in the right before God?" and "How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?" He continues to try explaining his suffering and also the mystery of God. I noticed the phrase..."“My days are swifter than a runner;they flee away; they see no good." I suppose days and years do pass by quickly like a sprinting track star! There is no quess work for Jeremiah regarding the reasons the people have fallen on hard times...the prophet traces their disobedience. Here is Jeremiah's answer..."And when your people say, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ you shall say to them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.’”

Paul, in the letter to the Romans, claims faith is the key to righteousness and this can be traced all the way back to Abraham and Sarah. Obviously faith is one of the big three (faith, hope, and love) and is a common thread throughout the Bible.