January 23
Then Job answered the Lord and said: ‘I know that You can do everything, and that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You…I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You.
— Job 42:1-2, 5-6
Have you ever said, “Why me, Lord?” when something bad happened to you? Rabbi Harold Kushner, in his book When Bad Things Happento Good People , tried to answer this question. Unfortunately, Rabbi Kushner’s conclusions were not biblical. Kushner says, “God would like people to get what they deserve in life, but he cannot always arrange it.” He says that God does not really control the eventsof this world but...
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