Have you heard about – or seen – The man who sued God?

Who can tell me what it is about in one sentence?
Might this is have been modelled on Job?

Let me tell you about one man who wanted to sue God, and then another time about another one.

So first of all we shall consider Job.

Job was very upset with God, and demanded an audience. Listen to him:
Job 23:1-8 (or so) Where is he! Why doesn’t he answer?

I suppose we could ask those questions, couldn’t we, when things are not going right, when we consider what a mess the world is in?

How should God answer Job?
Should God tell him what he is doing?
Should God tell him why he is doing it?

God has something different in mind to what we might think.
God wants Job to get the big picture right first,
then he might begin to understand the detail:

Job 38 God starts to ask Job questions.
Job 40 He shows Job just how irrational he is being.
How Job contradicts himself in making his complaint:
If Job is right, then God is wrong (v8).
If God is wrong how can Job expect a fair hearing?

Job gets the picture Job 42:5

What happened to Job?
His outlook was turned around! He got a new way of looking at things.
Nothing changed overnight for Job, but he certainly saw things differently.

It is the same for us – when we come to Jesus,
he changes the way we look at things,
he changes our way of thinking.
We become new creatures in him.

If any man be in Christ he is a new creature. Old things have passed away, and all has become ´new. (2 Corinthians 5:17)