Episode 370 - Show Notes:
- Does it ever seem like you are being attacked from every side? Maybe you have gone through seasons of life when everything seemed to be falling apart. You faced sickness, while navigating financial difficulties, and family challenges, all at the same time. What do you do when your whole world is crumbling?
- Job is a man who has lost it all. His whole world has crumbled. The durability of his faith in God is being examined. Can Job do it? Can he hold on? Is he only a believer because of God’s blessings? Will he continue to trust God if all of his blessings are removed?
- Every eye is on Job. It’s as if all of Heaven and Hell are watching to see what happens. At this point Job’s wife had seen enough. "Are you still holding on to your God? What's the use?" she mocked. "Curse him and die!” But Job refused and asked, "Should we accept good from God and not trouble?”
- Later Job declares his decision. In Job 13:15 he says, “Though God slay me, yet will I hope in him.”
- We gain inspiration from Job’s story. When your whole world is crumbling, when everything seems to be falling apart, you can maintain your faith in God. You can trust Him. You can continue to believe.
- Let’s decide to be mature followers of Jesus, who do not believe because of the blessings. If the blessings come, we will follow Him. If the blessings are removed, we will still follow him. In every season, God is faithful.
Job 1:8-12 - “Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.” “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.” The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.”
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