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Daily eMail Devotional
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Job 42:1-17 Then Job answered the LORD, and said, I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job. So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job. And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold. So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. He had also seven sons and three daughters. And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch. And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. So Job died, being old and full of days.We are now coming to the closing chapter of the story of Job. We see a man who in a short period of time lost everything that was dear to his heart and go into a deep depression. A man who questions why God even created him in the first place and whose wife even turns against him. For many of us, the events that occur in Job’s life would be enough for us to want to quit on life and curse the name of God but I am sure glad Job does not. In the end we see God bless Job with even twice as much as he had before all the tragedies. We see a man come out even stronger than he ever was before. I believe when it comes down to it the reason God blessed Job, as a result of the trial, was what we find in our passage.
We see Job’s response to God after he decides to humble himself and to stop justifying himself, “I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.” Job was done with questioning God’s wisdom and understood that God’s plan was in the end for Job’s good. Many times in life we want to question God’s plan. We want to question God’s intentions but we must remember to realize that our wisdom cannot fathom the wisdom of God’s as Job confesses. (I Corinthians 1:25)
As humans, we want to understand the reasons and we want to be in control but with God that just is not the case. We serve an almighty, all-powerful, omniscience, omnipresent and a whole bunch of other great things but the one attribute we many times forget is loving. We forget that God truly does love each of us and when we do forget that is when we start to question God. Have you been questioning God’s love or God’s goodness in or through your trials? In life do not forget the very thing that would cause the almighty God to send Jesus Christ to die on the cross for our sins. Have you forgotten God’s love?
Love you all!
Pastor Mike
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