Too Close for Comfort

The Good Life

By Dean Fulks, August 24, 2025

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What if the good life demands moments?



reminds us of God’s goal for our lives



Rom. 8:29a – For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son



God allowed the thing ever to happen the person ever for the highest good ever



Job 2:9 – Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.”



Job 2:12-13 – And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven. And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.



Their silence was , while their words were



Job 4:7-8 – Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off? As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.



Job 8:4 – If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.



Both religious and irreligious people believe in



Job 11:14 – “Put away sin in your hand.”



Job 19:25 – For I know that my Redeemer lives



Job both God and to God



Jn. 15:13-15 – Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.



Retribution is getting what you earned, but grace is getting what Jesus earned