To Celebration Lesson 1 . . . Nothing confuses us and tries our faith like seeing bad things happen to good people. The fairness of God sometimes comes into ques tion when a young father is killed, leaving a wife and small children, or when a young child is diagnosed with cancer.
Some times life seems so unfair because bad things happen to the best of people.
The confusion associated with adversity and suffering is as old as time itself. When we think about bad things happening to good people, Job would have to be first on the list. There is no record in all of history of a better person who had worse things happen to him or her. Let's see what it has to say by first considering . . . The book introduces us to a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job.