Job didn't need a lecture

He lost everything — his children, his health, his livelihood. And when he was at his lowest, his friends showed up… and started giving answers.

They assumed they knew why he was suffering. They dissected his pain. They told him what they thought God must be doing — or what Job must have done wrong.

But they didn’t trust God in Job’s story.
They didn’t sit with him.
They didn’t just love him.

We can do this too. We see a friend suffering and feel the need to fix it, explain it, or even theologize it. But what if what they really need is our presence — not our opinion?

In the end, God rebuked the friends but blessed Job. Not because he had all the right answers, but because he stayed faithful in the wrestling. Job didn't curse God or abandon Him — he was honest, broken, and confused… but he kept talking to God anyway.

We don’t always know what God is doing in someone else’s life. But we can trust that He’s still writing the story. We don’t need to write it for them.

Sometimes the most Christ-like thing we can do is sit in the ashes with someone and say, “I’m here. And I trust that God is too.”