"More Loving & More Faithful Than We've Ever Seen Him Before"

"Job, like Paul, discovered a new place of intimacy with God through his severe suffering. And it is uniquely through suffering that we can find our way to the very heart of God. In fact, there is no other pathway that can take us there.  It is when we are hurting the most that we run to God. We recognize that we are powerless and that he is powerful. We pray and we see him more clearly because we are desperately looking for him. And in our looking for him, we find him to be more loving and more faithful than we've ever seen him before. We discover an intimacy  that we never experienced before, perhaps because we we're looking for him so intently. That is always God's purpose: to use whatever means he sees fit to bring us to a closer relationship with him, to create in us a faith that will give us the strength to keep holding on to hope--not a flimsy wishing or a hope that everything will be fixed in this life but a genuine biblical hope that one day what is unseen will be seen. This faith is confidence in an eternal future in which God sets everything right." - Nancy Guthrie.