Job

From the book of Job we learn about suffering in the life of a believer. Many times we may want to ask "why" because we dont understand what God is doing. To admit you dont understand is okay, to doubt the faithfulness of God is not okay. Through the book of Job we see that God's ways are higher than ours, He knows what is best, He is faithful. No matter what trial or suffering you many currently be going through, remember our Savior understands and is right there with you, remember our "Redeemer lives and that in the end He will stand upon the earth". "Our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us."

I also love chapters 38-41 where God speaks to Job about His creation. It is valuable to remember that God knows what He is doing. The passages about the Behemoth and Leviathan are wonderful examples that confirm the creation account, that dinosaurs lived and the same time as mankind and that originally God created everything "very good". (these were not hippos and alligators as some commentaries suggest, have you ever seen a hippo with a "tail like a cedar tree" or an alligator that is a "sea dwelling creature that breaths fire"? No, I dont think so. I believe that these were dinosaurs!!)

God's plan in suffering, is to draw us to Himself and to make us more like Christ! That is the real treasure!