• Job Chapter 4 & 5

    Friendship, Misguided Counsel, and Understanding Suffering After Job 2–3, we see Job wrestling with physical, emotional, and existential suffering. Now his friends — Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar — enter the narrative, beginning with Eliphaz in Job 4, who offers his interpretation of Job’s plight. 1. Eliphaz Speaks: Assumptions About Suffering (Job 4) Eliphaz opens by reminding…

  • Genesis Chapter 1

    Reading Genesis 1 Slowly — A Personal Reflection I didn’t rush through Genesis 1 this time. I couldn’t. The more I read it, the more I sensed that this chapter isn’t trying to satisfy my curiosity about how everything came to be. Instead, it gently invites me to trust who God is, and how He works—calmly, deliberately, without panic or force….