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How Job’s Trials Redefine Comfort in Suffering
How Job’s Trials Redefine Comfort in Suffering Paul Sadler
Painful trials have a way of testing our coping strategies. The Book of Job introduces a man whose suffering included unimaginable financial devastation, unrelenting physical pain, and the tragic loss of his children. His story helps us to see the limitations of some of our usual responses and gives us more effective means of relief.
1. Sometimes friends can do more harm than good
As tragedy hits Job, three friends “made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him” (Job 2:11). It feels at first as if they will…
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