What Elihu and Covid-19 have taught me about myself

One of the great joys I've had over the past 3 years or so is a daily Bible study I've done with 6 other friends, each in a different city in the US. We read a chapter of the Bible and then we share with each other by text something that we now Know, something we should Be, and something to Do from it. My friend David Wills started us on this and as I think he thought we'd last a month or so, he hit the "good stuff" up front which meant that we started in the Gospels. Well, we are now almost done, finishing with Job and then counter-intuitively, Genesis...all of it, btw, I'm coming to understand again, being "good". Today we are in Job 34. In it Elihu, the 4th "friend" is opining on why Job is going through what he's going through. There are some great elements of truth in what he says, maybe even some wisdom and yet we know that he doesn't "get it" because God shows us through "Job 1" what is really going on. Elihu is seeing things through what is, at best, a cloudy window. I think that's how I've been seeing the coronavirus thing. I still do think that the treatment may be worse than the disease in this Covid-19 thing.....but I just don't completely know, or at least to what degree. I'll never know. But the lesson of Job does apply here I believe, and that is that God is Sovereign, he is worthy of our worship and I believe that we are to know Him and enjoy Him forever. I, for one, want to redouble my efforts to that end.....to love Him with all my heart, mind, soul and strength and to love my neighbor as myself. There's never been a better time to do both.