Emphasis Preaching Journal
Going public
Commentary
Each of these texts sends us into a different sector of our lives and asks us to
consider how we apply analogies from our public life to the gospel. Job asks us to
consider what good news is there if we feel God is a judge before whom we must plead
our case as we seek an acquittal. The premise for Job and his friends is that discerning the
sufferings of Job is a matter of showing God, the just judge, the fundamental unfairness
of what has happened to Job. Surely with the appropriate application of reason, logic, and
precedent we can come to a just verdict.
