Job and realistic hope

We talk about the patience of Job, but he also exemplifies hope. We don’t know what’s going on. We can have hope anyway.

The Patient Job by Gerard Seghers (public domain). With friends (and wife) like this….

I keep coming back to the story of Job in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. Some scholars think it is the oldest book in The Book in terms of when it was written down. If so, it shows that we humans have wrestled with the same…