Article February 20, 1984 Issue

Do we know God or know about Him?

STEVEN LEE FAIR

There's an enormous difference—between knowing God and knowing about Him. Consider the story of Job in the Bible.

Job is a good man, "a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil," Job 1:8. the narrative says. Yet, apparently with God's permission, Satan smites Job—destroying his possessions, killing his sons and daughters, and plaguing him with awful disease.

In the fires of this living hell, knowing God and His divine purpose becomes far more than an interesting point of theological discussion! It's literally a matter of life and death. Job's extremity forces him to confront as never before life's greatest question: Who or what is God and what is my relationship to Him? Job cries in anguish: "Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands ...?" Job 10:2, 3.

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