Read the Bible in a year by reading Job 11-13 today 


God and the Sins of Our Youth 
By Don Ruhl 


Job said to God, 

"For You write bitter things against me, 
And make me inherit the iniquities of my youth." 
(Jb. 13:26). 

Why was Job suffering? He did not know why, and he wondered if sins he committed as a youth were now haunting him. Our past sins have a way of doing that to us, that is, make us think that our present suffering is the result of past sin, even sin in the distant past. 

God knows that we made mistakes in the past. He knows that we have grown up. It might be that we did something wrong in our youth, and we still reap the consequences, such as having a child out of wedlock, but generally God does not make us inherit the iniquities of our youth. He knows that we have moved on to greater and righteous things. 

Live in peace. 


Question from the text: What kind of physicians did Job call his friends? 

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