1) If I were to poll the audience in radio land, I would find that many people agree with this statement that Job makes: "A man’s days are few and full of trouble." Keep in mind, we spent a year and a half reviewing the entire Book of Job. We should understand that in the beginning, Job was stellar. He started strong. His first two responses were songs that we have written in worship. But in his third response, he started to fade because things were piling up.

2) There are key principles that we need to remember when dealing with our life circumstances. The first key principle is that what God sees is not what we see. Another key principle is to remember that it is never God’s fault. Quite the opposite, everything that happens to us is for our benefit. The last key principle is recognizing the most important statement in our Christian walk, outside of acknowledging and surrendering to the gospel of Jesus Christ. That principle is to remember the quality of God.

3) It would be fair, from time to time, to place the blame where it belongs. There are certain things that we can blame on the enemy. Jesus did so in his own teachings, making it clear that the enemy was engaging and that sometimes darkness comes from that side of things. Another place to assign blame is the world itself, which walks, functions, thinks, and feels in rebellion to God. But the last place to put blame is the last place anybody wants to assign blame. For that, we'll reference Adam and Eve and recognize that we're not that different. If we were in the garden, we would have done the same. That sounds sad, but it's true. After all, they are our first set of fore parents, and we bear some of their DNA.