Jesus is the greater Job.

I heard this wonderful insight tonight during a monthly Zoom training for discipleship counseling conducted by biblical counselors Alex Kocher and Brenda Payne.

Job suffered not for his own sins, but for being a righteous man (Job 1:6-12). Jesus, who knew no sin, was made to be sin “so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

In his suffering, Job wanted answers. He didn’t understand what happened to him or why. But instead of laying out the answers for him, God questioned Job. Across four chapters in over 120 verses, God showed Job that he is God and Job is not. And Job had no answer to God’s questions. How could any human respond to, “Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness? Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this” (Job 38:17-18).

This is where the comparison between Job and Christ gets really interesting.

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