Job’s Perspective
Job has always been one of my main heroes in Scripture, even though he is such a picture of depression. Some friends and family might suggest this reflects my cynical personality…but I want to paint different picture.
Job endured more pain than I ever will, but he never took his face from God. Yes, he complained and questioned God…but always with an air of hope. He called for a Mediator, an Interpreter, a Redeemer, a Judge, and and Advocate to stand between him and God to reconcile the injustice he knew all too well. I think Job gets it more than the rest of us….he knows that what he had experienced was absolutely miserable and broken, but yet in the midst of it all he looks to his Redeemer who lives….”and after my skin has thus been destroyed…I shall see God.” He knows the Hope that is in “the true Mediator between God and man.” So in my opinion…the character of Job is that of an optimistic realist…that’s really not cynical at all.
