The Cause of Love [Proper 24B]
The Rev. Jeremiah Williamson Job 38:1-7, 34-41 The Cause of Love This is kinda like the Sermon on the Mount, this passage from Job, if Jesus had a much more confrontational presentation style. Instead of “Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them” we get “Gird up your loins like a man and answer me this: who feeds the raven its prey? I know: not you.” So like I said, similar but different. Now I’m not going to assume that everyone here is an expert on the book of Job. We’re dropped into the 38 th chapter today; 37 chapters worth of stuff has already happened, leading us up to this point. He’s the quick and dirty summary: Job is wealthy and righteous. He loses everything right at the beginning of the book. Everything, that is, except his wife, who urges him to curse God and die. He doesn’t do that. Instead, he sits in ashes an...