Don't Stop Believin

I hated to use a Journey song title, but ..... its the best i could come up with

Ok I am currently read "The Bible Jesus read", by Philip Yancey. Its been ok so far, I am about a third of the way through it, it hasn't been quite as strong as some of his other books. But he made a statement that I read last night.

Talking of Job, how he prayed to die. Yancey says he was most likely starting to lose faith, and not wanting to lose faith in God he knew if he died, then he would have died with Faith. Yancey claims that during hard times sometimes its not the actual suffering that gets to us, is the losing of faith.

Yancey also goes on to say that the book of Job shows us to keep our faith, and that suffering can happen to good people also, not only the "SINNERS".

Yancey also talks of how God let he own reputation hang on Job's back. That blows my mind, why would a powerful creator let his own reputation hang on a flawed human. I mean I hate my name being associated with people's work that I know is not the way I would be able to do it. I don't know, God seems to have a lot more confidence in Us than we have in ourselves. How did we become so down on ourselves, and Jesus told us to could tell a mountain to move and it would do it if we had faith. Why can't we just believe? Why is our faith so weak?