Thursday 31 October 2013

Day 1 "Twas All But a Dream"

Your animals are dead. Your thousands of sheep and camels too. Your servants are killed, and not to mention your shepherds. And your children, all ten of them, are dead.
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I am just starting to grasp the harsh severity of the tests Job had to face. We all know the pain of the death of a loved one, pain that tears our lives apart, as we desperately seek a way out of reality. Life at that point seems almost hollow, meaningless. Its as though a hole is dug into our souls; it cries out in a deep anguish, overwhelming us with grief.

Reading Job was like reading a story for me. It was intense, heartbreaking, and nerve wrecking. I can only imagine the pain Job felt, the thoughts running through his head. Countless days he must have woken up, begging for someone to run in and tell him that his children were still alive, that everything was just a dream. But it only became worse, as it became not only a emotional attack but also a physical attack. The next scene painted in this book, "Job scraped his skin with a piece of broken pottery as he sat among the ashes", is radical. How different from the man described in the beginning, the richest, most blameless man in his land!

But,
"In all of this, Job did not sin by blaming God." That for me, was profound. To see faith this strong, that in whatever circumstance it will stand firm and not fall into sin; that, for me, is inspiration at its best.

1 comment:

  1. Interesting that when his friends came to him and tried to suggest that if he would confess his sin then his situation would change he was adamant that he was innocent and hat in fact this was Gods doing

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