Complete Trust

By reading Job I quickly realized something that I have always known but have always ignored. I realized that people only believe in god when he is being good to them. For example when people have health and they are wealthy they say god exists but when something starts going wrong they say god doesn’t exist. We have to avoid contradicting ourselves like that and learn from Job. When god took everything from Job I was expecting Job to say something like “The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he? Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good (Job, chapter 9).” We must accept that many people only use things for the good it brings them but once it brings them something bad they ignore all the good things that had come to them and focus on the bad ones. It is necessary if you want to live a happy life to start focusing on the good things and ignoring the bad things. As Job did throught his harsh times “In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly (Job, chapter 3).” We must do through our hard times in order to get through them. In the end people often start reflecting on what they did in their lives and what they would change “Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death (Job, chapter 10).” If as a human race we are able to do this before our lives are coming to an end then we will make the world a better place. Learning from the bible will lead us towards the path of a happier life.