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Being as Job

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What have I done wrong? What awful sin(s) have I committed to experience these difficulties? A few days ago I heard teachings and revisited the story of Job in the Old Testament. Let me just say that it has opened my eyes to a different meaning of the story. My family experienced some degree of financial crisis as of late. Me and my wife tried everything but it seemed we're never getting out of the whole.  We did extra jobs, sidekick, selling our extra things, cutting back on expenses.. but it just didn't work.  As we've exhausted all of our options, the only thing left was to turn to family.  Though we did receive some help, we were faced with surprisingly assumptious questions, though well intended, I think. Questions like; "What have you done to get to this point?" "What happened with you?" These questions were in the assumptions that I or we've sinned and our financial struggle was the consequence of our wro