“If only my grief could be weighed and my devastation placed with it on the scales. For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas!” (vv. 2-3)

Don’t underestimate it.

When you are in pain—when you have experienced illness and exhaustion and loss—the weight of it is real. It can bury you, emotionally. You start to do the math on all the things on your shoulders and in your heart and on your mind and in your flesh…and you are forced to conclude that it is immense.

Job and his friends will have trouble seeing this the same way. And, honestly, those around you might not really get it, either. You, then, need to remember two things:

If people don’t get what you’re going through, show them grace.

And, if what you’re going through reminds you of your utter powerlessness, let it drive you into the presence of the One who saves.

— Tyler