There is no other Way.

The Word for today:
Job 25:1 -- 27:23


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How then can man be righteous before God? (Job 25:4)

The wonder isn’t that bad things happen to good people. The wonder is that good things happen to bad people.
The exchange between Satan and God reveals that there seems to be some measure of overarching universal justice which allows God to use only broken tools—the circumstances left in the wake of our sin-- to repair and renew lives:

Satan: "Look what sin has wrought."
God: "Then with these very circumstances, I will restore them."

This is making good out of bad, which is God’s greatest miracle by far. The primary example is, of course, the cross of Christ where what sin has wrought—death, “the wages of sin”—was used to save the people.

Jesus Christ, growing up in Nazareth, immersed in scripture (1), came to the realization that only through suffering could there be salvation. And then came the realization that only His suffering would suffice. The cross, you see, is for all to carry. But there would be only one Christ. We suffer in vain, for we have brought it upon ourselves. He suffered, the just for the unjust (2), to pay the wages of our sin.

There was no other Way (3).

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(1) Luke 2:46-49; (2) 1 Peter 3:18; (3) John 14:6