Read Job 42.
- What do I know now that I
did not understand before this calamity?
Job realized a deeper understanding of who God is that he
could not have learned in any other way.
For Job, it was summed up in these two statements.
-"I know that you can do all things."
- "I know that no purpose of yours can be
thwarted."
He said things he regretted.
His words came out of his hurt and confusion.
- How did God reveal Himself
to me?
Job had a personal encounter with the one true and living
God through his sufferings. That was the
turning point. God's words both
corrected and comforted Him.
There were three results of this meeting with God.
-Job repented of his sin of finding fault with the LORD.
-God rebuked Job's friends for their sin of misjudging Job.
-God restored the fortunes of Job by 200%.
- What can I take away from
this?
Believers in Jesus have an eternal, personal relationship
with the same God who spoke to Job. If
we suffer and it is not our fault, we find ourselves in a school that is
designed to teach us a deeper understanding of God's love for us and our hope
in Him.
"...we rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering
produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces
hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured
into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us." (Romans 5:3-5)
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