Suffering

  • I Don’t See the Full Picture

    ByPrasad

    For 37 chapters, Job asked God why — and got silence. Then in chapter 38, God speaks. Not with answers but with questions, taking Job on a tour of the universe. Stars, seas, storm systems, creatures beyond naming. And in the middle of it all: “Everything under heaven belongs to me.” Job’s response? “Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.” Today’s devotional looks at what it means to stop demanding explanations — and start trusting the One who holds it all.

  • The Fear of the Lord Is Wisdom

    ByPrasad

    Job searches through the whole of chapter 28 for wisdom — the depths of the earth, the place where gold is refined, the hidden caverns no bird has ever seen. Every source gives the same answer: wisdom is not here. Then God speaks: “The fear of the Lord — that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.” Today’s devotional explores what that fear actually is (not terror — awe), what it produces in us, and the personal testimony that the hardest seasons are often where God is doing the most.

  • Right Words, Wrong Direction

    ByPrasad

    In many cultures — including across Asia and the Middle East — suffering is automatically connected to sin. When a child is born with a disability, when illness hits a family, the whisper follows: What did they do to deserve this? Job’s friends thought the same way. Then Jesus walked past a blind man and His disciples asked: “Who sinned — this man or his parents?” Jesus answered: “Neither.” Today’s devotional looks at what Eliphaz got right, what he got catastrophically wrong, and what Jesus has to say to anyone carrying pain that others have attached to their sin.

  • My Redeemer Lives

    ByPrasad

    Job had lost everything — his children, his wealth, his health, his reputation. His friends had become his prosecutors. And from the depths of that wreckage, he made the most confident declaration in the book: “I know that my redeemer lives.” Not I hope. Not I wish. I know. He said it without the New Testament, without the name, without the empty tomb. We have all of that. Today’s devotional asks the honest question: have we slipped from knowing to hoping — and what does it take to anchor ourselves back?

  • Presence Before Answers

    ByPrasad

    Job’s friends got it right for seven days — silence, presence, sitting on the ground with him. It went wrong the moment they opened their mouths. But here’s what this passage shows us: Jesus wept at Lazarus’s tomb before He raised him. God’s compassion is not a performance. He enters our pain before He speaks into it. And Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 1 that God comforts us so that we can comfort others with the same comfort we’ve received. You can only give what you’ve been given.