Ladies, I hope the excitement to study Job builds with every day you are sinking into it. What an incredible book! What practical encouragement we see in Job for our daily lives. Consider Spurgeon’s well chosen words concerning Job.
As good as Job was at the beginning of the book, he will be a better man at the end of it. He was better in character, humbler, and more blessed than before. “Foolish devil! he is piling up a pedestal on which God will set his servant Job, that he may he looked upon with wonder by all ages. . . Oh! how many saints have been comforted in their distress by this history of patience! How many have been saved out of the jaw of the lion, and from the paw of the bear by the dark experiences of the patriarch of Uz. O arch fiend, how art thou taken in thine own net! Thou hast thrown a stone which has fallen on thine own head. Thou madest a pit for Job, and hast fallen into it thyself; thou art taken in thine own craftiness.” (Spurgeon)
Let’s plan to look in depth at the first 2 chapters of Job this Thursday morning. The questions on page 6 of our study guides will be for summarizing what we discuss in class. Plan to dig into some good commentators on these two passages to challenge your thinking to deeper levels than you may have thought of before. I’m very excited to begin this amazing study on Thursday.