God has a strong purpose for allowing us to go through every situation. Therefore, when we are not afraid to trust Him completely, He blesses us in an unusual way. In ways which people around us can't understand and frankly speaking even we ourselves are not able to comprehend. This is when God is truly working in our lives because His understanding is unreachable. Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Prov. 3:5-6
The story of Job is one of the most peculiar pieces of biblical
literature not only because it explores some of the most earnest questions we
ask about our lives and God's presence in it but also demonstrates the
mystifying nature of God. Job is a wealthy man living with his large family,
extensive flocks and had many servants. The Bible says, " This man was blameless and
upright, he feared God and shunned evil". One day, Satan appeared before God in heaven and God
bragged about Job's righteousness and how there's no man like him on earth. But Satan argued that Job feared God
only because God had "always put
a wall of protection around him and his home and his property". Satan then challenged God that, if given
permission to test and take away everything which God has blessed him with, Job
will turn and curse God. God then allowed Satan to torment Job to test this bold
claim, but he forbade Satan to from taking Job’s life in the process. When we read further in the Bible, we find out that Satan put Job through a series of events that tested his
faith in God in the most mind blowing way even beyond the capacity of his own
understanding. And throughout the process, he lost his children, wife, flocks
and all his wealth. Job lost everything us humans would associate with or use measure up how blessed someone is by God. His friends questioned his goodness and
his character and raised concerns about whether he is indeed “blameless and
upright” which is ironic because unknowing to Job and his friends, both God and
Satan did in fact view him as “blameless and upright” hence why his afflictions
was a result of a contest between them. Even though job questioned God about
why he was going through so much trouble, he never faltered in his faith in
God. Amid his pain, he worshipped, praised and prayed and declared how mighty
and powerful God is.
The Bible says in Job
1:21-22 “Naked I came from my mother’s womb and naked I will depart. The Lord
gave and the Lord has taken away, may the name of the Lord be praised. 22 In
all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing”. So even when he lost everything, he
never lost his greatest asset- he was still not afraid to trust God
completely(Faith).
The story of Job shows us that we should never let an impossible
situation demotivate us but instead to let it motivate us to trust more, to
believe more, to learn more and to grow more, James 1:3 "For you know that when
your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow". Today’s impossibilities can become
tomorrow’s miracles. There’s power in prayer and faith so instead of worrying
about how difficult everything seems, we should just talk to God about it
through prayer. Faith is willing to risk failure to live a righteous life and
believe that God has great plans for our lives even when we don’t understand
what that plan is. Real faith puts its trust in God completely and does not
demand a guarantee of a miracle because God’s timing is always perfect and at
his appointed time, you’ll see the glory of his plan in your life.
The story of Job also shows that God rewards us greatly when
we trust and have faith in him as Job 42:10 says “the Lord restored his fortune.
In fact, the Lord gave him twice as much as before.”
1 Corinthians 10:13 “The temptations in your life are no
different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow
the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will
show you a way out so that you can endure”. Always remember that’s God’s plan will not always make sense but
when we worry less and pray more, everything works out for good because by
doing this, we set our eyes on God thereby making God bigger than the problems
we have. Always remember that God will restore us just like he did for
Job no matter what we go through and "yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he
will reveal to us later". Romans 8:18
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