Job's Roller Coaster Ride

This week in my 3rd grade class, we have been studying the life of Job. As we began our discussion on Monday, we talked about the horrible things that began to happen to Job. As he was sitting at his dinner table one after another of his servants dropped in to give another round of bad news to Job. When everything was taken away from him and he lay in ashes to soothe the pain of the boils and sores upon his body, his wonderful friends decided to help explain the reasoning for his misfortune. Job's response to their theories was, "Though he slay (kill) me, yet I will trust in him." Job knew that whatever happened in his life- good or bad- was from God and was a part of God's plan for him. Throughout the week, my students began to discuss what caused Job to have a supernatural trust in the Lord and for him to not have a need to know all of the mysteries of God. One student explained by saying, "It is kind of like riding a roller coaster ride at Disney World. You don't have to know how it all works, you just have to trust that the person working the ride knows what they are doing." I thought this was an amazing view of God's hand upon our lives. We don't have to understand why things happen in our lives, we just have to trust the one that is in control of our lives, God, knows what he is doing.