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Job 8:1-11:20; I Corinthians 15:1-28; Psalm 38:1-22; Proverbs 21:28-29
Job’s friends grasped to find the reason why Job was going through so much hardship. Theirs was a typical thought process – you must have done something wrong. We always search for reasons why events occur when many times we will not have the ability or knowledge to understand. Sometimes… sometimes, stuff just happens.
In Matthew 5:45 it reads “That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for He makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” We see that trouble falls to all people at some point in time and not necessarily because they are bad. There was no way for these friends or even Job himself to know why he was enduring these hardships. How could they have known that it was a result of a conversation held between God and Satan with God declaring His confidence in Job to handle things correctly?
The big lesson I get from this is that we shouldn’t go about judging people. It’s simply not our place. I might add that God got onto Job’s friends in the end as well. We humans like safe, boxed control. We dislike not having the answers or for things to go haywire without knowing how to “fix” it. As uncomfortable as that is, we have to resign ourselves to the fact that God doesn’t make us privy to every move He makes. Whether we stand depends on our trust level we have developed with the Lord.
Where are you at? Can God be trusted with your life? Are you able to stand regardless of whether you are enduring “fairness” in your life? Are you living for this life or the one to come?
PRAYER: Lord, I ask You to forgive me for always trying to figure everything out. I acknowledge You alone are God and I don’t have to have all of the answers nor do I need to try to figure everything out. It’s not my place. Help me to reserve my judgments of other people’s trials. I leave that to Your capable hands. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
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