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“God doesn’t offer explanation; but oh, he offers his own heartbreakingly beautiful self. God breaks into Job’s darkness by actually allowing himself to be summoned by Job’s cries for justice.”
― This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness
― This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness
“For if one thing had become clear to me in my own suffering, it was that there is a mystery to theodicy, one we may not unravel this side of eternity. God does come—oh, he comes—but that doesn’t mean the pain ends, yet.”
― This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness
― This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness
“God did not diminish what Job suffered, but there was God’s aching request for Job to behold the kind of beauty that allowed him to live in the tension”
― This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness
― This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness
“He allows Job to question and grieve, to yearn and weep. But what he offers Job is not an explanation but an encounter. For Job is summoned to behold God’s goodness in the staggering pageant of creation, one so mighty in its loveliness that at its end, Job considers himself answered.”
― This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness
― This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness
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