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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