Doctors need honesty. If
I don’t tell my doctor what’s going on, he can’t help me out.
If I lie, it could be
even worse.
Jesus, the spiritual
doctor, needs honesty. Don’t hide your pains, wounds, and needs from God. Even
though He already knows them, He does not force you to tell Him, and He will
only heal you when you invite Him.
JOB is brutally honest.
(Does anyone else think it’s a weird spot to end the 1st reading? –
not because it doesn’t make sense, but because right after he says “…” we say
“thanks be to God!”)
But in some way what Job
shows us today is a type of “good news.” It reminds us that Christians don’t
have to pretend that life isn’t hard, painful, and downright bleak at times… at
least when we look at it from the perspective of wordly happiness. Just this
past week we celebrated various martyrs from different times and places, and
for none of them did following Jesus mean “easy street” and luxurious living,
especially at their ending.
And so we as Christians
do not need to sugar-coat the suffering we endure on this earth. But we also
know that there is something deeper, much deeper and fuller, than earthly
delights. God wants to give us those true things, those spiritual rewards, more
than we can ever desire them ourselves.
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