Suffering In Edith Schaeffer's Book 'Job'

Job, there has been a book written about your suffering, which is beneficial. The benefit of the book called Job is giving people hope when they are suffering. Further, it is about a God who is there for them. Romans 15:4 illustrates this idea for us, “For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.” As a Christian studying this book I have learned much from your story. Job you are an excellent example for the rest of us because even though your friends were not good friends, through all of your suffering, you stood firm.

The first thing I want to point out is that your friends were not good friends. To begin with, they did not understand the truth of

What you could not see and your friends could not see was that God sealed the truth behind the curtain. Edith Schaeffer explains, “In the first chapter of Job, the curtain is pulled back for us, to reveal what was going on in the heavenlies.” In both Job 1:6-12 and 2:1-6, we see that Satan comes to God and challenges him to send trial to you so that you would renounce God. The Lord allowed Satan to bring the trials to you, and even though you could not see behind the curtain you never once renounced him. It is also essential to understand that we live in a moral universe, so the books can be balanced. In Francis Schaeffer’s Job series, disc 2, he states, “If we are not going to live in a total tragedy concerning man, because history is made up of both halves of history the seen and the unseen, the balancing of the books must be a cross of both sections if the world is to be moral.” He is explaining that we can only have a moral world if ‘balancing the books,’ or the future judgement of man,