“No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career — something will inevitably ruin it.” (Tim Keller)
When suffering comes, sometimes we struggle to pray to the God who supposedly is in control: we doubt, wonder about God’s love, wonder what we did wrong to deserve it. This week in our series on Learning to Pray we tackle prayer in the school of suffering. We turn to an expert on affliction: Job, and learn from his prayer in Job 42:1-6.