For I know that my Redeemer Lives

Hello Friends. I have chosen the following verse in Job 19:25 as our promise for today, April 29, 2019.

For I know that my redeemeth liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.

If anyone had the right to be angry with God, perhaps it was Job.  Satan had bartered for his life. And God had given him permission to do what he would with Job, except take his life. And so it began. He had lost just about everything. His children,  many of his servants, his animals, his property And his wealth. Satan was even allowed to strike him with boils all over his body. That would be enough to make him angry. Right?

Why did God allow it? In verse one of Job 1, it says that he was a perfect man, an upright man and that he stayed away from what was evil.

Didn't he have a right to be angry with God? After all, his wife and some of his friends thought that he should turn away from God and curse him. For sure Satan thought he would curse God.

But he didn't curse God. He said that he came into the world naked, and he would leave it that way. He knew that what he had came from his God. In verse 22, it says that "in all this, he sinned not." And he did not charge God with wrongdoing.

And so what happened when he refused to curse God? When he didn't sin or blame God for his troubles? God gave him back much more then he had in the first place. And that included children.

Wow. How many people can say that they don't get angry about their situations? So many have bad things happen to them and they throw the fist up at God in anger.

There are always reasons why he does what he does. Why he allows the things he does in our lives. Always. Never anywhere in the bible does he promise us a rose garden....as the old song goes. He doesn't owe us one. He doesn't even owe us an explanation. And that is why we need to learn to trust him and his judgment. Because he does know best, and someday he will reveal it to us. When he allows us to know.

Do you get angry at God because things are not going your way? Or because something bad has happened to you or your family members? I know I have. God isn't surprised when we do it. But he wants to forgive us for not trusting him. And really, as I heard someone say the other day; Given a choice to trust in God and have the peace that he is doing what is best for us, or being angry and living in bitterness, what would you choose? I choose peace because all too many people live in anger and hate and believe me, that is no way to live. How about you? Which way would you choose?

Have a blessed day, Friends!