Read Job 42.
What do I know now that I did not understand before this calamity?
Job realized a deeper understanding of who God is that he could not have learned in any other way. For us, we may learn other lessons about God and ourselves. For Job, it was summed up in these two statements.
-"I know that you can do all things."
- "I know that no purpose of yours can thwarted."
He said things he regretted. His words were out of hurt and confusion.
How did God reveal Himself to me?
Job had a personal encounter with the one true and living God through his sufferings. That was the turning point. It was God's words that corrected and comforted Him.
There were three results of this meeting with God.
1. Job repented of his sin of finding fault with the LORD.
2. God rebuked Job's friends for their sin of misjudging Job.
3. God restored the fortunes of Job by 200%.
So what do we take away from this?
Believers in Jesus have an eternal, personal relationship with the same God who spoke to Job. If we suffer and it is not our fault, we are find ourselves in a school that is designed to teach us a deeper understanding of God's love for us and our hope in Him.
"...we rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us." (Romans 5:3-5)
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