In Job, chapter nineteen, verse eleven, the servant of God was now under the misconception that God directly caused his suffering, as in verses eight through thirteen. Job believed that God had become his enemy who delighted in bringing torment and agony upon his soul. However, Job was not aware that Satan was the cause of his unrelenting calamity. Although God was permitting Satan to bring harm to Job, it was nevertheless Satan who inflicted the cruel suffering. Believers should be careful not to blame God for what He only permits. Many evil things occur, and God takes no pleasure in witnessing them. Tragedies happen among His children, which He permits with regret and pity.
God allowed His Son, Jesus Christ, to go through suffering for humanity. Jesus, the Son of God, was willing to do the will of God, knowing in the end that God caused all things to work together for good, as in Romans eight, verse twenty-eight. However, the response from the Son of God in Matthew twenty-seven, verse forty-six, “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” In addition, in Psalms twenty-two, verse one, the opening line in A Cry of Anguish section. “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me and from the words of my roaring?”
For believers, it is not a matter of if but when. That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it is tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.” If the Son of God had to go through trials, how much less can we as followers of Christ expect?