[OneVike]

“Him praying for his friends seemed to be what triggered his bodily and financial restoration. “
Thus the paradox. Some of the things God requires seems counter-intuitive because of our ingrained worldly value system.

Again I must reiterate that Job was suffering from self righteousness, he was not healed because he prayed for the others. He prayed for the others after God showed him his fault, so Job was a dutiful man and prayed for the other three.

Job was healed by the grace of God because God wanted to heal him. There is nothing we can do, and that is what Job learned through his trials. All his good works and deeds and prayers were no better than a woman's menstruation rag, as the Scriptures point out.

[CottShop]

[[Job was healed by the grace of God because God wanted to heal him. There is nothing we can do, and that is what Job learned through his trials. ]]

Bingo! and again, it;’s important ot realize God may or may not heal us, and that His decision is not based on what we do, but on His Soverieng right as God alone to deal with His creation as He sees fit. In the end, Job didn’t know God was goign to restore Him, so that wasn’t Job’s motivation for repentance- Job repented because He loved God, and because it was the right ting to do regardless of the circumstances he faced

I write this as someoen who suffers and unfortunately wallows in ‘why me’ most of hte time- I do try not to- but find myself crying out ‘why God?” al lthe time- then I resign myself to hte fact that nothign is goign to change, and ‘just accept it’- (but I never truly do accept it- I just ‘give up whining for a time I guess), and I write this to remind me that I’m WAY off trtack in my htinking- Thanks for your insight and responses to put the perspective back where it belongs- I lose track of thigns because I get consumed by the personal experience of suffering, and everythign becoems about me, and I lose the love for fellow man because all I can focuss on is the pain and cry out’ ‘Why God?”