Daily Archives: August 6, 2009

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Blessed by the Name of the Lord part 2

This is the second in a series of posts responding to a comment from Jeffery Adams. In the last post we looked at the pain and suffering of Job as he dealt with the loss of possessions, servants, and all of his children. Job’s response to these events was to respond to his great God in worship. As the text of Job says: Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.” God says that in his sorrow Job kept […]