When our prayers go unanswered, we often search for what went wrong: weak faith, hidden sin, doubt. But like Job’s friends, we risk mistaking our grasp of God’s justice for knowledge of His purposes, and we add to the burden of people already suffering.
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When our prayers go unanswered, we often search for what went wrong: weak faith, hidden sin, doubt. But like Job’s friends, we risk mistaking our grasp of God’s justice for knowledge of His purposes, and we add to the burden of people already suffering.
