Where's the place of understanding?

Man does not know the way to it.

And it is not found in the land of the living.

God understands the way to it and he knows its place.

So if you can't figure something out, read this to yourself.

It is not at your disposal to figure all this out.

God knows the way to it.

Some of it he reveals.

And then according to Deuteronomy 2929, he keeps some things hidden for himself.

He keeps a lot hidden for himself.

In fact, we see through a glass darkly.

There's something deeply comforting in knowing that we can't make sense of most things it reminds us that we're not god and that's good news i'm dan cruver in this episode of light Truth, part of our series holding Fast to God in the Dark,

John Piper turns to Job 28 to show that mystery isn't the enemy of faith. It's part of what it

means to trust the all-wise God. This message was originally delivered at the Cove in Asheville, North Carolina,

on July 15, 2000.

Now let's step back for a moment and view the progress of Job's faith in the midst of this.

I said, in one sense, he's moving along and beginning to overstate the case for his own righteousness.

I don't think that's the main thing that's happening.

There's some of that.

I want to watch Job become a stronger believer because there is some progress here.

In Chapter 3, Job sank and cursed the day of his birth. And he said, I don't know. Get it. I wish I were dead. This is dragging out too long. It doesn't make sense. And as they begin to hammer him, he comes back, I'm not what you think I am. I'm not what you think I am. And I don't know about me, children, but I'm not what you think I am. Now, does his faith increase or decrease during these 29 chapters of

hammering? And I want to just point out how he's dealing with the issue of death.

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