Bob at Gratitude and Hoopla has been reading the book of Job, and Bob thinks the church is as fond of easy answers as Job's comforters:
We in the church today are not so much plagued by miserable comforters as pre-occupied with positive-thinking. Today's Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar would not be judgmental cads, but glib positive-thinkers, with a message like, "Cheer up, Job. God's got a wonderful plan for your life, just you wait and see." It's a message no less inappropriate. I have a feeling that Job would have found it every bit as unsatisfying as the dour message of his three so-called friends. God's response, on the other hand, might have been exactly the same: "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?"
Good points. And I hope Bob will forgive me for quoting his concluding paragraph.
2 Comments:
Milton,
Thanks for pointing me to this posting. This weekend our guest pastor made the comment he was there to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable"
I love Billy Graham's response to a reporter's question on Hurricane Katrina. His answer was simply "I don't know."
Russ
Sounds like a good answer to me.
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