Along the shoreline in California it is a common sight to see - whales stopping alongside rocks as they migrate from Alaska to Mexico to scrape off barnacles. In our lifetime we also will pick up a collection of personal barnacles that will attach themselves like parasites sapping the life out of us. They must be scraped off.

How did Job do it? The same way we can do it through faith. Faith is the only thing that can heal the hurts. Job scraped the barnacles off. It was painful! The scars would remain but his life was put back together. Strong belief in God was the medicine. His wife and his friends could not do it only God could! Job said, "I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from Thee." Job 42:2.