Christ, The Wisdom Of God

Job 28:1-28 Ever since Chapter 4, we have been bombarded with the wisdom of man seeking to make sense of Job’s suffering all to no avail. The three cycles of argument have been born from Job’s howls from the ash heap of his unexplainable suffering in Chapter 3 where Job screamed out the agonized question of every sufferer—the question of “Why?” What 24 chapters of conversation have revealed is that Job still has no answer to the ‘why’ of his suffering. And furthermore, what these chapters have also revealed is that God has not answered Job’s question of “Why?” All of this produces the question—“Why will God not answer my question?” Chapter 28 shepherds us to see—What if the security we desire on the ash heap of suffering isn’t found in the wisdom of an answer for why we suffer. Instead what if the security we want is found in the wisdom of getting more of God himself through our suffering. Main Idea—While the wisdom we seek for why we suffer isn’t wrong; ultimately the wisdom we are to seek is Christ himself.