For 8-12-06

Glenn E. Hawkins, Evangelist

Job is the classic example of how we learn God’s love best through difficulties. He was not anything less a godly man before his sufferings began (Job 1:8), but it was only afterward that he could say, "I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You. Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes" (Job 42:5-6). God's trustworthiness had become so much more real to Job that he was ashamed to think how little faith he had before. [more next week]