God Hears Her

Suppose doubt is not indicative of a lack of faith but of loosely holding our convictions and being willing to change our current position when given new evidence. My friend Carl, a pastor, posted the following in a recent Facebook post: “I’d much rather be around people who are honest about their doubts than to be surrounded by people who are absolutely certain that all of their beliefs are true.”

The high school youth group I attended with my boyfriend before I became a Christian was at one point studying the book of Job. I couldn’t find this apparent vocational guide in the new NIV Study Bible my mom bought me for Christmas. It seemed weird to me that it wasn’t the book of Jobs, unless maybe there was just one job that was appropriate for Christians? It was time to turn to the book of Job, but, alas, the Bible’s table of contents was not alphabetical. I didn’t grow up performing “sword drills” in Sunday school classes, and, if you must know, I didn’t know, at first, that “Job” was pronounced J-OH-B, not J-AH-B.