I think the Bible does a pretty good job of showing that sometimes life is hard. Critics of the Bible think that it doesn’t paint a realistic view of life, but I tend to disagree. You know, Job wasn’t the first person to suffer, and he certainly wasn’t the last. Truly, Job was a broken man, and had very good reason to feel that God had hit him hard. But seeing as how she told Job to curse God and die, perhaps Job would have been better off if he had lost her. The only thing he didn’t lose was his wife. Job certainly had good reason to feel that God was cutting him off.

After all, within one day, Job lost all his oxen, all his donkeys, all his sheep, all his camels, all his children, and all his servants except the 4 who came to tell him all this news. He felt as though God had struck him dead. But he was fairly strong in his language because that’s how he felt. Now, of course Job didn’t mean it literally. “Though He slay me…” That’s a fairly strong word. And the verse has always appealed to me, because it’s such a great statement of faith. The scripture was read earlier: “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.” I heard this verse preached as a funeral message many years ago, when a friend of mine lost her mother far too soon to cancer as well.

Download scripture though he slay me