"The Message of Job"

If we meditate about this article, we might think that our times are different. The time Job lived and our time is not the same. That is true there is no time to meditate in our time; with so much marketing ringing in our ears, with so much information flowing in the world, with that desire to get and to have instead of give, we have lost a sense of belonging. We have lost that unity with God, that personal relationship with Him that we find in the old and New Testament. The challenge is to listen to God everywhere, every time and understand that everything belongs.

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"The Message of Job"
Job, from the Hebrew Scriptures, can be for Christians a beautiful symbol of the Calvary that each of us will go through. In the story’s first chapter Job is presented as the innocent man, confronted with evil and suffering. He has obeyed the law of God, he has been faithful. Satan comes before God and says: “Sure, he’s been faithful. You have blessed him. Take everything away from him and see if he still praises you” (1:9-11)
Very well, says Yahweh. So Yahweh takes everything away from him, and still Job says: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, naked I shall return. Yahweh gave, Yahweh has taken back. Blessed be the name of Yahweh” (1:21, JB).
So Satan goes again before Yahweh and says: “You took away just the external things. But destroy his bone and flesh. Make his body suffer, then see if Job will still not curse you” (2:4-5). So Yahweh gives Job ulcers and diseases of the skin. But still Job refuses to curse Yahweh. Now the stage is set for the drama. Job is tempted to curse his life. He struggles with the absurdity and the meaninglessness of life but finally says, “If we take happiness from God’s hand, must we not take sorrow too?” (2:10, JB).
Brothers and sisters, if you’re seeking to lead a good life, sooner or later every one of you is going to be led to that point. Every one of us is lead, sooner or later, to the ashpit with Job “picking at our own sores” (2:8). At that time you will hear many voices (symbolized by the various advice-giving friends of Job). Pray that you know which friends to listen to and which are being “reasonable” at the price of faith.
The Book of Job probably represents the greatest moral dialogue ever written. The final response of Job does not come from logical moral reasoning but from graced personal experience.
from The Great Themes of Scripture by Richard Rohr