Everybody suffers. Job lived in the land called Uz where he lost everything what he did not know is that his faithfulness had meaning beyond his wildest dreams. He did not know that something cosmic and eternal was at stake in his little life, in his little time on this earth in his deep suffering. Sitting on an ash heap, scrapping boils off his skin - broke, sick, confused, mocked, abandoned, helpless, alone. Job's faithfulness and suffering was being used by God to vindicate God's whole wild adventure in covenant love. His honesty and perserverance have been used now for thousands of years across the continents, across cultures, across the languages to inspire billions of people who live in the land of Uz.
Hang on Job, keep going, don't let go, don't give up. The writer wants us to say that not just to Job but to say it to ourselves, to say it to each other, to say it to people that are all around us who suffer, who anguish, who agonize, who hurt, who question, who don' know, who don't understand, to say to them, "Don't give up. Don't you let go. You hang on, you keep going, you persevere, because it matters more than you can imagine." We live in the land of Uz and everybody will suffer sometime or another. Why? I don't know why. How long will last? I don't know how long. Does your response matter? More than you can possibly imagine, more than you can even dream, so don't let go. There is this great big God!
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