LOOKING FOR GOD

A Reader's Guide to the Book of Job

Questions

  Rev. Martin Bleby

INTRODUCTION

Why is it good to read the Book of Job?

Job is a book about a man who goes through intense suffering.

The first purpose of this Guide is to get you to read the Book of Job. Have you ever done that? Right through?

I suggest you do that now, before we start. Really, there is nothing I can add to what it says. If I started to do that, I would be speaking out of turn. Adding anything to what is said in the Book of Job is not what I should be doing. My job is simply to present to you what the Scripture says, from a position of one who seeks to live within the Scriptures-as one who has received what the Bible says, and is living under it and in it, and is passing it on to others. I am not the only one who can do that-it would be good for us all to be like that. So I encourage you to read the Book of Job for yourself, preferably more than once. Read it right through now to get the overall picture of what is happening, and how it is set out. Then in this guide we will be taking sections of it one by one, in a different order from how they occur in the Book. Then, when we have finished, read it again, to get the whole sweep of it, so that it enters into your soul, and becomes a part of you, and your life is related to what happens in the Book of Job.