And You Think You Have Problems: Jacob

By IRA L LAKE PHD

Life has a way of bringing us down, doesn't it? Just when we think we're riding a wave of success, it suddenly breaks, sending us crashing into the jagged rocks on the shoreline of hard reality. Some lessons endure, being repeated from one generation to the next. Perhaps the most important observation is this: We learn very little from success, but failure is a wonderful teacher. Ask anyone who's ever gone bankrupt ... or anyone who has gone through the agony of divorce ... or experienced the pain of losing a job ... or watched a loved one die slowly. In the dark moments of life, when time slows down to a crawl, when we sit in the waiting room while the minutes become hours, it is then that we begin to learn what life is all about. The rest is just fun and games.Jacob learned that in spades. Not once ... or twice or even three times ... but six times over he faced serious personal suffering. Each occasion came unannounced, unsought and unexpected. Each one brought its own unique and deeply personal pain. Through it all Jacob persevered in his faith. He proved in his own experience those famous words of Job, "He knoweth the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold." (Job 23:10).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FJM44YDP
• ISBN13: 9798293616138
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"