JOB'S THE BOMB!

You know, I’ve been in ministry for over 31 years and anytime I hear a sermon or an illustration about sickness, disease or patience, Job’s name comes up. But when blessing and prosperity is talked about, you get names like Abraham, Issac and the list goes on. I must say with my teeth clinched…. “Job EARNED our respect and honor as a man of blessing and prosperity!” matter of fact, it was because of his blessing and prosperity that he was SELECTED to show the world that being faithful produces great rewards. He was abandoned, sick, diseased, criticized, ridiculed and etc….. but he was found to still be faithful which is more than I can say or read about others in the bible that are lifted up to be great people of God. I guess one reason I think that people always turn to Job when things aren’t going right is because misery loves company! However, Job wasn’t just looking for someone to feel sorry for him, he was looking and searching for answers that might tell him why he was going thru all that he was going thru and if he could get that answer, I know he would be one to quickly repent and set things right to return back to the blessings that came from obedience to God in the first place. He was however, willing to die for the cause of obedience and right living which is much more than I can say about most Christians today. We so much want to be justified and be in the right and we just can’t imagine that God would put us thru things that would make us question our lives and our obedience and integrity. There is hope…. Stop whining….. I say this to myself often because first of all, it’s not going to do me any good and second of all it sets a bad example for both the Christians around me and the world that I’m trying to win. “Trust In God” for He is faithful who promised. Find His promises and stand on them. Either His word is true or it’s not and we must either stop quoting it or die confirming it. Job was not moved in his belief and he was willing to die in faith believing God would come through for him…. And in the end run GOD WON not Job. God stayed true to His word and blessed Job beyond his greatest imagination.
Job 42:10-17 10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before. 11 All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the LORD had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
12 The LORD blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. 13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. 15 Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
16 After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 17 And so he died, old and full of years. NIV

AMEN!

Pastor Dave