JobJob is one of my favourite books of the Bible. That may sound a little odd, but hear me out. First off, Job is probably the oldest book in the Canon. Because of how it uses certain words, most historians feel that it is older than Genesis or any of the other Books of the Pentateuch. If you know anything about me, or you can read my tagline, then you know that I’m a sucker for anything of historical significance, but that’s not really the reason I like Job so much. I think I like Job because he’s one of the few Biblical charcters that simultaneously feels exactly like me and so foreign at the same time.

Whenever Job’s life get’s difficult, he begins to question God. An action that I’m all too familiar with. God answers him by saying, in a pretty sarcastic manner, that Job doesn’t know everything. Despite his whining, however, there’s another side to Job. At the beginning of the book, we read about how God’s angels are coming before the throne, hanging out, shooting the breeze, when Satan decides to drop by. That’s when God says this about Job:

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.” Job 1:8 (NIV)

Wow. God pretty much says that Job is the bees knees. That’s the part of Job that I often feel I can’t relate to. When God looks at my life, I’m pretty sure that he’s not bragging to Satan about how cool I am. Of course, given the turn of events that Job’s life takes, I’m not too certain that I want him to.