Day 269..."Job offers ultimate trust...backwards...absurd to sin!"

Job continues to sort through his suffering and offers the ultimate statement of trust..." Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face." We will see many sides of Job's struggles with suffering... this response endears him to us. How easy it is to praise God when the the weather is clear! How difficult when the worst happens! Job is a great Book for those who do not like "pat" answers to life's complex and unanswerable questions. Jeremiah writes in chapter seven primarily confronting the worship of other gods. One phrase I noticed is about going backwards..."But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward. " This passage was in reference to Israel refusing to listen to the Lord. Paul writes about how absurd it is to sin to receive grace...in such cases Paul says..."God forbid!" Paul then writes theologically about life begins with the victory over sin. This is in keeping with the resurrection. Paul also speaks of the opposite regarding sin and death. The clincher comes at the end..." For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." The stakes are high for Paul in the battle between sin and resurrection. We have life and death riding on our spiritual outcome.