Suffering And Resurrection Hope

Job 14:1-22 Job’s desire to speak to God back in Chapter 9 comes to pass in this text. Job begins to speak to God in Chapter 13 but his conversation surprises us. Instead of Job presenting his court case before God with evidence of how his suffering is unjust, he instead begins to talk about the problem of sin and death. But if you think about it, it’s really not all that surprising that this is where Job takes his conversation with God. Death is very much on Job’s mind. Chapter 2 has made it clear that he is very sick (2:7). And it just makes sense that as Job feels himself slipping toward the grave under what feels like God’s unexplainable punishment, he would ask the question—“What would happen to me if I were to die on this ash heap?” Job’s suffering is forcing serious reflection on the nature of death and what lies beyond the grave. And Chapter 14 records how Job fights to see more than just death in his suffering. Main Idea—When suffering forces me to face my mortality, I can rejoice in the hope of resurrection life.