Job 1 & 2
Have you ever felt like you had lost everything in your life? Your job. Your home. Your spouse or best friend. Your child.
Maybe. But have you lost everything almost all at once?
Job had good reasons to be depressed, because that is what happened to him. He was a very rich man. But he began to lose not only his possessions, but his property and his family. First it was his animals, and then his servants. Then it was his children and his home.
Why did all this happen to Job?
He had, after all been a righteous man and faithful to God. Why had God allowed this to happen?
It happened perhaps because Satan was jealous that some one of such great faith could have God's favor on his life. He wanted to take everything from him so that he would think twice about God and turn from him.
But it didn't work for in verses 21-22 it says, "Naked I came from my mother's womb and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away: may the name of the Lord be praised." In all of this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrong doing."
God had given Satan permission to take all that Job had, and yet, he was not satisfied. Satan wanted moreAnd so God to then let Satan strike Job's body with painful sores with one condition, He could not take Job's life.
It was so bad, that his wife told him to curse God and die. And his friends saw that he suffered so badly that they could hardly stand it either.
But in Job 2:10, it says that "in all of this, Job did not sin in what he said." And yet, he did suffer very deeply In Job 3:11 he wondered why he had not perished at birth. In Job 3:26, he said he had "no peace, no quietness, no rest." And in Job 10:1, he loathed his life.
I have lost things in my life for sure. But not nearly to the extent Job had. And through those times, I have even loathed my l life. But I can assure you, that I have never so completely gone through anything like that.
Can we remain as faithful to God when we even go through the slightest of problems we encounter?
Depression is not a thing anyone wants to go through. It can become so bad that we may want to just end it all. But do you know that after God allowed Job to go through what he had, and Job didn't turn away from him, God restored everything to him, twice as much as he had lost. Even a family.
God can do the same for us. When we remain faithful to him when we are going through our own hardships. In his time and what he chooses. It is all up to him. But it can happen. Because he is good. Because he loves us. And because he rewards us for our faithfulness.
November 4, 2019 Promise: Therefore my brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord inasmuch as you know for you labour is not in vain in the Lord. 1 Corinthians 15:58
Hello Friends. Thanks for coming by. I pray this season of 'Thanksgiving" will bring you many blessings from God!
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