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no one understood that Job was both the genuine article and a work in progress.
seal, ‘The Lord knows those who are his’” (2 Tim. 2:19). This excellent Word never changes. The Lord knows you. This reality is the single most important thing about you.
He would get pointedly personal in alerting us to the danger of turning gifts into an identity and ministry into an idolatry.
Some people intentionally mute dismaying realities by doing mental gymnastics that keep suffering at arm’s length. But Scripture never commends stoics.
Other people recoil from life, so fearful of being hurt that they withdraw into a shell of excruciating self-protection. Wishing to avoid pain is natural, but Scripture never commends isolation as a strategy.
Every single reader who lives a long life will experience a landslide of losses and disabilities.
The universe is no longer supremely about you. Yet you are not irrelevant.
