Can We Live Again?
If a man die, shall he live again? – from Job 14:14

The age-old cry of humankind is for eternal meaning. Is there anything beyond this world of pain and tears that brings meaning to these moments while transcending them? Is there a life beyond the grave or is all futile?

Perhaps Job did not really know the answer, but he did have a glimpse. We do know that, unlike most men and women, Job was willing to serve God for nothing. He was willing to worship the Lord with or without reward or promise of life.

Job's God was not running for office. His status did not depend upon human referendum. He was God and that was that. Because He was God, He deserved praise. Job would come into a deeper understanding of God's Sovereignty, but the seeds were present even before his testing.

Job asks pressing questions. For followers of Jesus, the answers come most fully in his incarnation, death, and life. The resurrection is the final statement of death's final defeat.

For the one who follows Jesus, there is hope beyond death. John said that he was writing his gospel so that we might know we had eternal life.

People are yearning for answers to the ultimate questions of life. Job is portrayed as the ultimate example of an earnest seeker. Job's search is recorded so that we might identify and be led toward a relationship with God that defies death and suffering and rises above our questions.

Job's story is our story.

His yearning is our yearning.

His needs are our needs – not to be free of pain and discomfort, but to see God face to face and find our answers in Him.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: -II Corinthians 5:1-2

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These guys travel around England singing old folk songs to any who will listen.

Their story is featured on a BBC story and on their website:

http://www.awalkaroundbritain.com/

Great old folk hymn: