Job 1-3: Where is the Peace and Rest?

Few of us have experienced all of the disasters, tragedies and health issues that Job faced.  We don't know what it is to be so beset upon, but in being blessed with relatively few inflictions, are we missing out on something that was clear to one so sorely troubled as Job?

Not just the idea that we should accept both good and trouble from God, but Job's knowledge that this earth is temporary, a place where as Job said:
   I would be lying down in peace;
   I would be asleep and at rest
with kings and counselors of the earth,
   who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,
with rulers who had gold,
   who filled their houses with silver.....
There the wicked cease from turmoil,
   and there the weary are at rest.
Captives also enjoy their ease;
   they no longer hear the slave driver’s shout.
The small and the great are there,
   and the slave is freed from his master. - Job 3:13-19 NIV

In the midst of life, it is hard to long for such a place, but there is something built into all of us that knows that the peace we long for will never totally be found on this earth.  My guess is that most of those who commit suicide are hoping to find that rest, but suicide is not the answer.  Jesus said, 'Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.' (Matt. 11:28 KJV)  Herein lies the answer to all of man's problems, both for the here and now and the hereafter. 

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