on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 4:11pm
Are you feeling "job"ish
more new prespectivish. I love the book. But then I love so many books. Job is the one I probably know the best. actually never mind because I know Ruth and Esther pretty well too. But Job has been on my heart lately and then a friend said something today about it being on her heart also, that it keeps coming up. And we were talking about it and she used the same words to describe it as I had heard all my life. But it's funny to me that the meaning of those words has totally change this past year. The words are the same like endurance and faith. But there is such a deeper meaning that I am just now learning. I don't know if I can explain it. I always thought of Job as this dude who went through a lot. But it really isn't that. He was this man that so trusted in God that He knew that the earth was a temporary place, that everything taken from Him was never his to begin with. He rested himself so completely in God that not even the people "of God" around him could root him out. None of them could convince Him that he should do something, that he needed to repent to make things better. that there was something he could do to make things different. Job so trusted and put his faith in God as the One who knew what he was doing, that he just waited. He did nothing while everyone else was scurrying around trying to "fix" things Job just waited for God. Listening for God. It is just such an amazing way to look at his life. Anyway. That's what got me thinking about a study of Job.
You know the other really cool thing about Job, is God knew what Job would do. So why let Job suffer. To teach both Job and Satan and those that watched something. to Job that he did have faith enough, to show Satan that He did know ALL about his creation and to show those watching that those that trust God and live in and for Him are not without suffering but are greatly rewarded for their steadfastness.
more new prespectivish. I love the book. But then I love so many books. Job is the one I probably know the best. actually never mind because I know Ruth and Esther pretty well too. But Job has been on my heart lately and then a friend said something today about it being on her heart also, that it keeps coming up. And we were talking about it and she used the same words to describe it as I had heard all my life. But it's funny to me that the meaning of those words has totally change this past year. The words are the same like endurance and faith. But there is such a deeper meaning that I am just now learning. I don't know if I can explain it. I always thought of Job as this dude who went through a lot. But it really isn't that. He was this man that so trusted in God that He knew that the earth was a temporary place, that everything taken from Him was never his to begin with. He rested himself so completely in God that not even the people "of God" around him could root him out. None of them could convince Him that he should do something, that he needed to repent to make things better. that there was something he could do to make things different. Job so trusted and put his faith in God as the One who knew what he was doing, that he just waited. He did nothing while everyone else was scurrying around trying to "fix" things Job just waited for God. Listening for God. It is just such an amazing way to look at his life. Anyway. That's what got me thinking about a study of Job.
You know the other really cool thing about Job, is God knew what Job would do. So why let Job suffer. To teach both Job and Satan and those that watched something. to Job that he did have faith enough, to show Satan that He did know ALL about his creation and to show those watching that those that trust God and live in and for Him are not without suffering but are greatly rewarded for their steadfastness.
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