The Eliphaz dilemma

Job 4. Eliphaz was one of Job’s friend, word used loosely, and he presented a wrong conclusion. Many of us share this incorrect thinking. What is it?

7 “Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?

Where were the upright ever destroyed?”

Believing that the innocent or the righteous don’t suffer. It lends itself to faulty thinking then sadly, a wrong view of God. It causes us to see Others who suffer with judgement or accuse God of being unfair. Unfortunately sin does bring consequences. However when we suffer and cannot point to sin, if there’s not a biblical worldview of suffering we will ask, “Is God unjust?”

He is Absolutely not!

Job was not the only righteous man, that was Gods description of him, in Scripture or in a fallen world who suffered or suffers in innocence. The natural question is, “Why?”

Many do ask, but don’t stop to look for the answer. I taught on this and go back to it when I’m struggling. It puts my mind around His Word, his direction, his answers. They are not usually in-line with, “Why?” But he gives us so much more.

How do we continue when our question isn’t assuaged But in Faith we know God is still good?