Job suffered many hardships that would cause many to commit suicide; death of his family, sickness, financial destruction, the end of life as he knew it, yet he still loved and worshiped God. This book in the Bible, the Book of Job, tells of a man suffering. Job loved God, but so many people who claim to love God will think of themselves as unblessed because of their misfortunes or lack of wealth. Do Christians love God for His perks, or for His love?

Job's wife and his friends show the side of man that loves God only because He blesses them with great things; servants, farmland, wealth, and plenty of children—these days we consider blessings to be a nice car, a big house, a good job, a beautiful wife or husband, children (if you consider those blessings), or impressive skills. Job of the Bible cursed the day that his misfortune happened to him, but he was never with fault in his worship to God, the one Who knew all and had a master plan. This same issue can easily be translated to love between two people; one can marry someone, say they love her, but when times get rough they can't manage to forgive or work it out, like one would if their love wasn't ankle deep. This kind of love is something that a Christian should know well. This said, why don't Christians love each other as they were taught? Paul gives a clear picture of Godly love in 1st Corinthians 13:4-8A: “Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails; [...]”

We who worship God tend to set in our minds expectations for God, like a genie, so that He will give us blessings when we ask for them. This expectation that we set in our minds can be completely different from other people's expectations. Some may be expecting to be blessed with a big house and recognition of some commercially profitable talent, while others want simpler things—a spouse, a farm, and very little more. but the simpler things shouldn't be considered more likely just because they are simple. Humans have these expectations of our blessings in our heads, and we consider them, as long as they're reasonable, to be reality because God intends to bless us. The intention of the blessings from God is that we use them to glorify Him, or rather, let it be a tool to help us serve God.

By human reasoning, what God did was evil because a human doing the same thing would be labeled evil. “How can a god so loving allow this suffering?” The justification of the acts of God comes up when disasters hit nations and people. God has a much more in depth concept of sin: Sin is an act against God, so how can God do something against Himself? In 2 Corinthians 5:21A it says, in reference to Christ, “He made Him who knew no sin [...].” Thus, God cannot sin.

When Job's friends come to him they adopt a certain belief that when bad things happen it is because that person sinned. In John 9:1-7, however, it tells of a situation when Jesus was presented with a blind man by the people and when they asked Jesus, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus explains to them that neither he or his parents sinned, and he said, “but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.” Having said this, Jesus healed the man of his blindness so that the people could witness it. This is proof that God does not make bad things happen to people just because they sinned, though He has used unfortunate events to punish people who have sinned, He does not make bad things happen to people because their parents sinned. Instead; God does things that may inconvenience people, and that some may call “bad,” but He will use those things to glorify Himself.

God wants us to be happy, for He loves us, He is glad when we have good things. For some people he chooses not to bless them with riches, He instead blesses them with things that they wouldn't rather have over a Porsche, or a new house. What Christians need to remember is that they do not deserve blessings, but God blesses us with things according to His plan and not ours. Suffering can be viewed as a bad thing, but all too often it sets the stage for something greater, that nobody other than God could have foreseen. Job was chosen to be used to make an example to Satan, the fallen angels, the heavenly angels, and to us humans who read The Book of Job, that God is all powerful and He uses bad things for his Glory. Job still worshiped God because he trusted that God had a plan. God has no lesson to explain to Job because his lesson is the absence of His commentary itself: The Book of Job would not have given the message it has shared for so many years if God explained all of Job's misfortunes to him.