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Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese, clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews?

—Job 10:10–11

• The making of cheese is an intentional, multi-step process in which the cheese-maker transforms milk into a product of his liking, shaping it into a block or a wheel.

• Job declares that just like the potter, the cheese-maker invests time and effort into making his product. Job understands that God’s work in his life is like that of the cheese-maker, in that God is involved in a process Job neither understands nor likes. He wonders why the great Cheese-maker would go to all the bother of making cheese of his life only to have him suffer and die. Job struggles with the “why” question.

• God brings various pressures upon us as part of the processes of life’s circumstances for purposes that are often as unclear to us as they were to Job. It is by faith that we understand that “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose” (Rom 8:28).

• Praise God, who is making something good out of our life circumstances.