Lately, it seems that bad things keep happening to good people. The world is full of unfairness and suffering, and it's easy to wonder where God is in all of it. How can He allow these things to happen?
I'm reminded of Job, one of God's most faithful servants, who lost everything. Yet he remained faithful. I envy Job his faithfulness, because my first reaction is seldom to trust God, to know He's in control, but rather to question Him and to feel very distant from Him.
God allowed Satan to do everything he wanted to Job except kill him, and Job responded, “Though He slay me, yet will I hope in Him” (Job 13:15). Job surely didn’t understand why God had allowed bad things to happen, but he knew that God was good and continued to trust in Him.
How I pray for faith like Job. Or to be like Paul and Silas, shackled in jail, singing God's praises. Because when things seem the worst, that's when we should praise Him most.
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