Today is the 25th day of August.

Welcome to the daily audio of August.

August. How do you say it?

I guess it's a different around the world.

I guess I normally say August.

Not sure why all the drama today, but hey, it's good to be here with you today.

Locked and loaded, Wind Farm Coffee to my right in my 20th anniversary, clean canteen that I'm using this year.

Scriptures straight in front of me, and the path together here around the global campfire is straight ahead.

So we are straight ahead into some of the deepest, most heartfelt, excruciating, painful parts of the Bible right now as we navigate through the book of Job.

And we explore deep trauma, unbelievable emotional suffering and anguish as well as physical destruction.

And so we are in the thick of it at this point.

Job and his friends, I mean, we saw what happened to Job so we can understand the anguish of his soul.

His friends have come and they can't even believe what they've seen, but

they have gotten into dialogue.

And they're really trying to help Job understand that things happen for a reason.

And that is falling absolutely flat on Job, who believes there is no reason.

And he is holding on to his integrity because he believes in his integrity.

He doesn't want human wisdom because human wisdom is failing him completely.

And if we've ever experienced traumatic events that are ongoing and are so deeply painful,

we also can understand how these things can fall flat.

Job wants God. He doesn't want platitudes. He doesn't want human explanation.

He wants God. And that is the only way he believes he will ever be able to make sense.

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