The book of Job touches on four main reasons for suffering: 1) natural consequences for our sin, 2) natural consequences from others’ sin, 3) natural and logical consequences of merely living in a broken world, 4) discipline to foster our growth. God sometimes allows pain to reveal who He is.

Job’s friends only offered him the first three reasons and had made no room in their theology for a fourth; perhaps God was fostering growth in Job. As we spend time before the Lord with the difficult questions about the hardships we face, God will use that time of wrestling to change the landscape of our theology and takes us to a deeper place of understanding who He is.