Job: How Evil Exists In The World

The problem of evil refers to the question of why bad things happen and how evil exists in the world. Job believed that he did nothing to deserve what happened to him, but his friends say that he must have done something to deserve it. They tell Job that God is good, although Job believes that he must not be all good. Job believes that God is not just. Although they differ on this, they all agree that all suffering does come from God.

Personally I believe Job’s friends have a better case. I think that all things happen for a reason. Whether good or bad, whatever ends up happening will end up being a positive in the end. Of course if something good happens now, that is viewed as a positive. If something negative happens, people think “Oh, why is God allowing this?”. For the time being what has happened can be viewed as evil, but

a lot of people don’t end up seeing the positive that comes from it in the long run.

What I have learned through life is that the worst experiences are also the best learning moments. At the end of the book, God gives Job back all his possessions, as well as twice as much that he previously had. Everyone he had known came over to celebrate with him and upon their departure, they either gave him a coin or a gold ring.

I am a big believer in that everything happens for a reason. From within the text, God puts Job through suffering. Rightfully so, Job questions God’s motives. I personally have a story from my life that lead me to believe that everything happens for a reason. Not to make it too long, but my friend’s sister and I became friends back in about October 2014. On June 1st 2015, we began dating. Our relationship wasn’t like the usual because we were friends for such a long time as well. On top of that, we were both each others first relationship. We dated until August 2017, so a little over 2 years. While we were dating, even though we were young

and in our first relationship, we were both very in love with each other and talked about plans for the future about when we get married and where we would live and work and things like that. We did just about everything together. When we broke up in August of 2017, I was devastated to say the least. Since we weren’t just boyfriend and girlfriend, but also best friends as well, it was extremely hard on me because it wasn’t like “Ok maybe my best friend will help cheer me up somehow”, because she was my best friend too. Her and I had such a strong connection from the very start, and I don’t think either of us really saw it going away. People would say how us getting married wasn’t likely, but the both of us really believed that it could happen. I believe in order to truly understand a relationship, you have to be one of those two people. I luckily was able to spend just about every day with my friend Frank. We would just sit in his backyard at night and listen to music and talk. His personal story is way worse than mine, but that is his business to tell. I’m really glad I had him there for me, because being alone I just drove myself crazy. I relate to Job with this story because he goes through an immense hardship, but in the end, it all works out.
For me, I love going to the gym and working out. Ever since I played football, lifting weights and getting stronger was always one of my favorite things in the world to do. As they say, breakups make bodybuilders. I’m lucky because I wasn’t new to it, I just had to get that extra motivation to make me work even harder than I already was before. Ever since the breakup, I am such a changed person. I was always confident in myself, but now even more so than I was before. My personality and overall drive as a person has gotten stronger. Not to make the story longer than it needs to be, but I wholeheartedly believe that God was testing me as well. In the end of October around Halloween time I went to a local party at my friends house and she was there too. Long story short she drank too much, I ended up taking care of her. The next day I met up with her because I wanted to explain to her what had happened the night before. Not to go into detail, but a lot happened that day and also later that night that lead me to believe we were most likely going to get back together. She even thought so too. We were friends again, but she wasn’t sure if she wanted to jump right back into dating. She wanted to see if I had actually changed. I completely understood this, and was all for working for it, as I am with everything else. We were talking again which was a great step. Here's where the test comes in. Just as I thought we were heading in the right direction towards getting back together, the messages were getting less and less frequent. I am friends with her brother and one night he was supposed to hangout with us, so I drove by his house late at night to see if he was home. While pulling up an unfamiliar car was blocking their driveway. I stopped, and got out and started approaching the car out of curiosity, and just as I did that, the car sped off. My friend’s car was home. Then as I started to think about it more, I looked at the house and the side light was on, which means she was out. I put it together in my head and realized that she’s with someone new.
I feel like after that, most people would be very upset if that happened to them, but from what I learned it was just a test for myself to see if I was truly changed for the better. While at the time being I did want to get back together, I realized that everything that happened and the way it did was for a reason, so I was fine. I got blocked on everything and haven’t spoken to her since then, but I’m doing well so myself and I’m happy with the life I’m living. This is definitely the toughest thing emotionally I’ve ever had to go through in my life, but it definitely was the biggest life lesson and I am grateful for it.