“God is implying that there are factors beyond Job’s comprehension that provide the rationale for innocent suffering. Whether the reader is satisfied with this response depends on whether the reader trusts or distrusts God to be speaking truthfully on this subject.”

“God’s ways will always be confounding to us and that shouldn’t surprise us”

“What are we afraid of – now? Can anything happen to us that he cannot share with us? Are there storms today which make us cry out like the disciples in the boat: ‘Don’t you care? We are about to sink’.”

“Questioning God is good if it leads us from a state of not thinking about God to a realisation that God is with us always. Part of that realisation is that God will answer our questions in His terms and not ours.”

“Christian faith is about much more than surviving shipwreck through the storms of life. It’s about believing confidently that the journey ends well. And that’s a cushion we can all sleep on.”

“find comfort and joy and vindication in the Christ who’s gone all the way down but then rises up to become the commander of the waves, he’s the Lord over sin and death. And find your peace in him.”

“Our shortcoming is that just like the disciples we do not trust God, we have doubt that God cares”

“Maybe our faith is to know that God is with us through the storms and that no matter what the external conditions are all will be well”

“Jesus is the very incarnate power of God who can hover sovereignly over even the greatest difficulties of life. Cry out to him.”

“The Kingdom of God emerges in the middle of all this when Christians recognize we are NEW CREATIONS—not just created by God, but CREATED NEW by virtue of Baptism and Faith to be God’s witnesses in the waves and worries”

“Job and the disciples both offer us examples of how we must come to know our true place, who is truly in control”

“There is no situation, no matter how chaotic it may be, that God cannot subdue and make something surprisingly new out of it”

“We can only understand the depths of our faith when we experience the storms of life -- when our boat starts to sink and we don’t know what to do.”

“the image of a storm-tossed boat lends itself so easily as a symbol of the turbulence that can afflict any of us. It is at such difficult times when trust in God is especially important but can be most tested.”

“We need a new perspective. Sure, there is evil. But God will twist, and massage, and mold and sculpt the most evil thing that can happen and bring something good and amazing from it”

“The question “Where was God?” becomes “where were/are you?””

“The solution Jesus offers us is his own suffering, a suffering which finally will mean the end of all our suffering, which finally will mean a new life in God’s new creation...We are faced not by an answer, but by a solution.”

“The only person God can love, the only person God can answer, is the real person that we are. Therefore, it is much better to pray as a real sinner then a fake saint.”

“Christ once he’s awakened in you has the power to calm the storms that rage around you. We just have to find a way to wake him up.”