Job again

You can't read it, but I was calling Job "JOB" all night last night. Lol. The introduction to Job by Chesterton is free online and a very thorough explanation can be found on YouTube. 

 Job’s Words Written in Stone | The Lord Is Near https://share.google/ic5XZiW1nC7W3Y409

The part we will think about here is more the inspirational part. The "I guess it was Job's fault" part. Because that is how people think these days. Since there isn't a God in Heaven, Job's motivation is the explanation for all things "bible". 

I set out to write a book about the Bible a few years ago to practice writing a book, because I knew the material I thought.  

Lol there, too.

Job's story is important because it is a distinctive episode, just like all the others, in the conversation between man and God.

We could act as though this is not a huge deal because it happens, and interestingly, the end of prophecy in Isreal did not put an end to "conversations with God" in the Catholic faith. Among other places. I read about a Muslim in India who God had a Paulesque moment with. "Why don't you like me ______?"

Job says something right in the middle of all his talking, before the problems are resolved, it's actually interesting to me, before I even finish reading Chesterton. He says first that he needs to write his innocence into a scroll, book or to etch it on stone, and then in the very next breath says he knows his redeemer lives. And that even though he will die, yet in his flesh upon the earth he will see him.

The idea that one day everyone will experience this profoundly epic moment is almost impossible to imagine. 

Anyway, it was very important because the book is there. Bible, you know, means book. the person who invented it might very well have been God himself, and the story of Job is a fine statement as to the problem of evil. (You had one job, lol)

Job, or Job, is an interesting example of a person who was tested to the point of being blessed and remembered. We forget all the time that the most important things in life remain the most important things, forever. It's all a matter of faithfulness. 

Ps. After watching a Saint Dominic video the other day I was confronted with my own epiphanies I had reciting the rosary. The man put himself through great pains to recieve that "necklace of teaching." I have realized a lot in its recitation, among other things, that the Luminous mysteries are the most mysterious of all. The other day I was struck by the idea that when Jesus says the kingdom of heaven is at hand, there really is a whole upheaval. The jews have the abomination, the temple is destroyed, and so forth.