Personal Reflections on the Study of God's Word
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The book of Job focuses mainly on the lessons Job learned as he went through the trials inflicted upon him as Satan tries to shake him loose from the faith and trust that he has in God. His friends tell him he is suffering because he has some secret hidden sin that he needs to confess, his wife tells him to just give up and curse God and die, but he refuses to let go of God. When we look at the beginning of the book we find the curtains drawn back so we can see what is happening behind the scenes (something that Job, his wife, and his friends did NOT have) observing interactions between God and Satan. In chapter 2 God is addressing Satan for the second time highlighting Job's faithfulness despite Satan "inciting [God] against him to ruin him without cause."
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In the 1998 movie "The Christmas Wish" Will Martin (Neil Patrick Harris) sets out to provide an answer to his grandmother Ruth's (Debbie Reynolds) Christmas wish to know who Lillian is - someone who shows up in her late husbands journals after their only son and his wife (Will's parents) were killed in a car accident. If you have never seen this movie, and don't want the ending spoiled stop reading, go find the movie and watch it before you finish this post!...
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We have all seen it - the non-apology, apology. It goes something like this, "If what I said [or did] offended you, I am sorry." It might also look like "To the extent my words [or actions] offended you, I apologize." The approaches essentially say "I am not sorry I said or did what I did. I am only sorry you were offended by it." The focus is not that I said or did something wrong, it is that you are somehow wrong because you took offense to me. Many people find it difficult to sincerely apologize. We somehow feel that apologizing somehow degrades us as a person.
