Job - Crushed in Hand of God

Our main sermon series during 2019 was preached through the book of Job. We sub-titled the series “crushed in the hand of God.” The main idea being that Job’s suffering was not only divinely appointed but also carefully crafted and surrounded by the will of God.

The main challenge was to depict visually the idea of being crushed and in severe trauma, depression and pain yet for it all to have a beautiful divine order to it all.

I struggled a ton with this graphic and went in multiple directions. For a long time I tried to illustrate a hand crushing a rose but it never felt right and seemed too “on the nose and cheesy.”

Ultimately I settled on more of an abstract visual. There is a ton of meaning in every aspect however. In the middle you have a shadow, a shell of a human who is completely drawn in with nowhere to turn. The shadow is engulfed (crushed) by a vortex of lines and color yet there is design, order and beauty to everything. Its not an accident and in fact the shadow is being held and propped up and shaped by the very circumstances that are boxing him in.