JOB 12 – “”good”" people suffer and “”evil”" people prosper? or do they?

JOB 12 in full

Here we have the age-old question –  God why is it that ‘robbers are at peace’ (verse 6) and why do ‘those who provoke God secure’ (verse 6)?

In this ever switching exchange of conversations where we have Job speaking with his friends who have come to be with him and mourn his children; the subject of this discourse is basically what I said above. ‘God, the wicked prosper yet the strong, the counsellors, the kings are all ‘stripped’ ‘bound’ and looked down on (verses 17,18 & 21)’

It is the question we all ask at one time or another, and in a way it is a fair wondering thought.

But I love the way Paul deals with another issue with regards to God’s electing choice with regards to salvation in Romans 9

‘But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”  Has the potter no right over the clay’

I believe this can be used as an answer not only to God’s electing choice in salvation but also to all that he seems to permit that “seems” to be, dare I say, wrong.

Now the witness of scripture is clear, God is good, he is totally just and in him there is no evil, or lack of equity!

So in the midst of seeming problems in this world system and indeed back to Job’s own personal situation we simply must submit or come to a place where we say…

‘God, you are Lord, you are sovereign you are absolutely and irrefutebly wonderful good and just, and even though I do not understand, I must submit to your will. Though I do not understand why these bad things are happening, even though I do not understand why there seems to be so much injustice, I know that as the song says ‘He’s got the whole world in his hands’.

Readers, once we get a grasp of who God is and know he is totally sovereign and totally in control, we can come to realise that though we don’t understand everything we have to realise that all things work together in HIS own good purpose, he has creative right over all things and whatever he does is in line with his great character even though we do not understand why.

It is far easier said than done I do realise that trust me, but it isn’t about what we find difficult it must be about what is reality. We must seek to come to a place where this can be our assured answer, not that we are cold and locked off to our surroundings, but in the midst of everything we can say

God you are God and all you do is simply your prerogative.

Let us pray for that mindset for it is only God who can continue to work on us and is more than able to , to bring us to a place where we see his glory and power more and more. I most definitely do speak from experience, ‘Lord show me your glory and greatness’…..and he so will!

Take a look at these…..ISAIAH 6 and REVELATION 4