Job A Study in Providence and Faith Author:Ralph L. Smith It is highly appropriate and perhaps providential that the book of Job has been chosen for study at this particular time. This book speaks to our present situation as few others do. Our lives, like Job's, are often fraught with problems, frustrations, suffering, hostilities, and fear. Many people in our time are asking questions Job must have... more » asked: Is there any meaning to life? Is there an overruling Providence capable of bringing good out of evil, joy out of sadness, fruition and finality out of the frustrations and failures of the past and present? The book of Job answers these questions with an unequivocal yes. The overruling Providence is the Creator and Redeemer, and that which gives meaning in life is the fact that man is part of a divine purpose that cannot be thwarted (42:2).« less