The One Year Bible - Day 234

Throughout Job we are told that he was a righteous and upright man, yet Eliphaz insists that Job's suffering must be related to sin and after all, are we not all sinners before God? It is a subtle but religious mis-understanding that since we have all done things wrong, that we all stand as sinners before God. In reality, it would appear that God is much more forgiving of people than that. He doesn't stand there and point the finger every time you do something slightly wrong. Of course, in New Testament theology we are fully freed from sin by the cross but we mustn't be too tempted to think that every little thing we see wrong in someone's life gets as much head-shaking from God as it does from us.