By John Piper
My spouse obtained me this e-book for my birthday in the course of my first 12 months in China (2003), and it's been picked up greater than as soon as. The distress of task and the Mercy of God doesn't rank as considered one of my favourite Piper books, yet either the writing and images are appealing. The distress of activity and the Mercy of God is an interpretive poem which Piper reads on an accompanying CD. activity is my favourite outdated testomony ebook, and an instance of knowledge literature. the following now we have a guy who has his riches destroyed, his kin taken, and his personal physique bothered but task ended up on the toes of the Almighty, in humility, worship, and compliment. all of us face pain sooner or later in our lives, yet what makes calamity endurable is that His sovereign goodness and bounty of affection sustains us. task is a prime instance of steadfast, persevering religion within the face of maximum pain.
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And then he knelt And said, “O God, what you have dealt Me in this murky day is not What I had thought this bloody, blotRed stone would bring. Did I not pray And sacrifice my lambs, and say With sacred oath upon my life: ‘Far better I should take this knife And mingle lamb’s blood with my own Than put my children on this stone’? But now what do I see below, But servants climbing to and fro Like ants on rubble foraging For lifeless sons. qxd T H I S P 9/17/07 A I 4:23 PM N Page 33 , N And granite precipice of love.
What in the name . . Job, would You please tell me what’s going on! What happened to the house? It’s gone. Where’s Zachan, Job? And why were my Three girls not waiting for me by The gate when I came home today The way they always do? ” Job said, “I fear To speak what you might die to hear; Or worse, might, hearing, live and curse. qxd T H I S P 9/17/07 A I 4:24 PM N Page 35 , N O Dawn broke, blood-red along the brink Of earth and heav’n; and scarlet ink Spilled upwards on the gray-blue shroud Above the land of Uz.
Stillness spanned The circle of the earth with peace, As if there had been made to cease Some monumental strife unseen Beyond the blue and arching screen Of heav’n – a great inverted sea, White-capped from some deep anarchy, As though a wild Leviathan Thrashed down its dirt to dim the sun And bloody every morning sky, But now a calm as far as eye Could see, a silent azure pool Of massive space above the cool And restful evening, without pain, Or any red and boding stain Up-bleeding from the sutures of The distant soil and sky above The land of Uz.