I have been reading Calvin’s sermons on Job while being away. His staggering main point is extraordinary. After we have experienced God’s blessings, kindness, and many provisions, we grow accustomed to them. We expect them, and then, when difficulties, struggles or afflictions come, we accuse God, we question God as to why he has taken away what we previously enjoyed by grace. How vile we can be. All that we have received has come to us from our good God, and should he take it all away, it is because he is being good to us. It is that last point that is so crucial to grasp. This is what Job expressed. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. May we say the same no matter what comes our way.