Job 1-3

It took me about 10 minutes to read the first part of Job. Without the first two chapters in this book Job's suffering would make not sense. Yet if we limit our understanding of suffering to just the first two chapters we might miss out on the way that God works in every stage of our lives.  God has, as Satan points out, prospered everything that Job had done. When Job planted a little, much was harvested. But God knew something of Job that Satan couldn't see and Job may have forgotten; Job was defined by his relationship with God NOT by the blessings that God had given him. This truth became obvious to the spiritual world after Job's second test. Satan never again acused God about Job again. However, back on earth it took a little more time for Job and his friends to see how all of this horror would eventuallu glorify God.
Stuart