The Amazing Story of Job

One of my goals each year is to read the Bible through again. If you have tried it, you know it can be a bit daunting. Especially climbing through the hills of the Old Testament. In the past, so as not to get lost in the chapters of Leviticus, I’d read a bit of the Old Testament, then some of the New Testament. But this year I decided to mix it up a bit. I’m reading the Bible chronologically. I started in Genesis but soon was directed to the Book of Job. Job, what an amazing story! Here’s a man who had everything—great family, properties, and wealth—and Satan took it all away. But there’s so much more.

It isn’t so much the perils that my focus landed on, but on Job’s determination to stay focused and always praise God. He even praised God when he lost his good health.

 

That’s where I pulled up and parked.

Do I have the same kind of faith?

 

Everything I am and own was given to me by God—including my health. This lesson came to me in April  2011 when God walked with me through some of the darkest days I hope to ever experience. I didn’t know if I would live, die, or maintain an existence somewhere in-between. In my own way, I had a taste of Job’s experience.

Yet when Job learned he lost everything, he did the most amazing thing. He chose to worship God.

 

[box] Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, ‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.’ In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong. Job 1:20-22[/box]

My hope is that I will always be willing to reflect on the amazing story of Job and push to see past my pain and disappointment, no matter how tragic it may seem.

Truly, the Lord is worthy of worship.

 

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