Job 28-30

It took me about 15 minutes to read this passage. In 30:24 Job asked this question as he faced his suffering; "what did I do to deserve this?" I'm sure that I have asked that question as I've faced some difficulty that I had not expected. We all expect to receive immediately a harvest that matches what we've recently sown. We justify such thinking with Biblical passages. Yet God does not say the harvest will be immediately. In Paul's Roman letter, chapter 8, he wrote that our prsent suffering is not worth comparing with the joy that we WILL receive. The great reward will come at the final harvest; the resurrection og the dead. To expect anything sooner should not be our desire.
Stuart