January 5, 2011
Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar heard about Job's troubles and they come to meet Job to show their concern and comfort him. They couldn't even recognize Job. They sat with Job for seven days and seven nights without saying a word because of how much he was suffering. After seven days Job spoke. He cried out and cursed the day he was born.
Job was unbearably miserable. He wished he would have never been born. He wanted to die. He wanted the pain to end. But in all his pain and misery Job did not curse God. "No matter how powerfully troubles crush, God's hold is more powerful."
One statement Job makes surprises me. Job 3:25-26 - "Everything I feared and dreaded has happened to me. I have no peace or quietness. I have no rest, only trouble." Job 1 - says Job was an honest, upright man who honored God and did what he knew was right. I would not have expected him to be fearful. Yet, here it says he feared pain and loss. Interesting that what he was fearful of is exactly what Satan used to attempt to get him to curse God. Thankfully, his love, devotion, and commitment to God was stronger than his fear of pain, and Job remained faithful and did not curse God.
Addendum: 12/27/14 ~ II Corinthians 4:16-17: "Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary (!) troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."
Next Entry: Job 4:1 – 7:21
Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar heard about Job's troubles and they come to meet Job to show their concern and comfort him. They couldn't even recognize Job. They sat with Job for seven days and seven nights without saying a word because of how much he was suffering. After seven days Job spoke. He cried out and cursed the day he was born.
Job was unbearably miserable. He wished he would have never been born. He wanted to die. He wanted the pain to end. But in all his pain and misery Job did not curse God. "No matter how powerfully troubles crush, God's hold is more powerful."
One statement Job makes surprises me. Job 3:25-26 - "Everything I feared and dreaded has happened to me. I have no peace or quietness. I have no rest, only trouble." Job 1 - says Job was an honest, upright man who honored God and did what he knew was right. I would not have expected him to be fearful. Yet, here it says he feared pain and loss. Interesting that what he was fearful of is exactly what Satan used to attempt to get him to curse God. Thankfully, his love, devotion, and commitment to God was stronger than his fear of pain, and Job remained faithful and did not curse God.
Addendum: 12/27/14 ~ II Corinthians 4:16-17: "Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary (!) troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."
Next Entry: Job 4:1 – 7:21
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