Why God Permitted Satan to Take Job's Family
Job 1:13–22 explains that God permitted Satan to take Job's family as a test of his integrity, demonstrating that suffering can occur without being a direct result of personal sin.
1 Peter 1:3–9: Born Again to a Living Hope
Peter traces living hope back to God's great mercy and the resurrection of Jesus, then shows what that hope holds: an inheritance that cannot decay and people guarded by God's power. Grief in trials sits inside that hope rather than contradicting it.