Job 10:20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little.
Oh Friends, it’s several down and another one coming up! That’s a warm winter’s day. (smile) But yes, it’s supposed to be warm again in my neck of the woods. Thank you Lord! However, when it does turn back cold, as it surely will, we’re all going to be bemoaning and bewailing our condition like Job, without good reason though. We gleefully enjoy the good things but complain mournfully when the dark days come, as they must do. Job knows this, and so informs his wife, (Job 2:10) but still, with our human intellect, finds it difficult to comprehend his sudden catastrophic situation. Most of us would too, after doing our best, working hard and amassing an earthly fortune and a good family, considering ourselves fairly righteous, treating others decently, then suddenly our whole family and fortune are taken away for no apparent reason, and we’re covered from head to toe with boils and skin diseases. Brudder! That’s certainly enough for a man to hold his head and bawl, wonder why, and bring his complaint before his God who had so promised to look out for him. Then to make matters worse, his so-called friends, instead of comforting and consoling him in his time of loss and grief, gang up on him, remonstrate with him, claiming that he has some terrible hidden sin, why such calamity befell him. Oh my people, this life is certainly not easy, nor one with easy to find explanations. We all wonder why bad things happen to good people and vice versa, and that certainly confuses us. But that’s why we have our faith, to help us cope, especially in those rough times that seem unfair. We have to be like Job, who, when the full extent of his disaster hit him, he tore off his robe, shaved his head, fell down to the ground and worshipped the Lord, saying: ‘Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly (accused Him with wrong) (Job 1: 21-22) Ah mih friends, that’s the right attitude for believers to adopt when calamity befalls us. Hn! However, it’s much easier said than done, especially when we take our concerns to God but can’t get any reasonable answers, and sometimes no answers at all. But as Dr. Schuller (Hour of Power) likes to say, ‘why’ is one question our God doesn’t answer, because it will just cause arguments. We’ll never be satisfied with His reasoning since all we can see is the small, personal picture, while He takes a big, worldwide view. So going to God asking why, is often the wrong question. What we should be asking is, what now Lord? What do you want me to do now? But again Friends, all those things work well in theory, in practice though, too few of us are able to handle them. We bewail our birth, curse the day we were born, and end up questioning God’s purpose for making us, if He’s going to allow such tribulation in our lives. Like Job did: ‘Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? O that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.’ (Job 10:17-19) Yes my people, that’s often our reaction when adversity strikes us. We question God: ‘Are not my days few?’ As Bruh David declared in his prayer for self-understanding. ‘Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity (vapour). Selah.’ (Ps.39:5) And we continue in our plaintive voice to God: ‘Cease then, and let me be alone, that I may take comfort a little. Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death.’ (Job 10:20-21) Oh mih breddren, we all have experienced those dark, dismal days when we’re in dire straits, don’t know why, can’t see any daylight, and all we can do is beg God to ease up the pressure. Sometimes it gets so awful that like Job, we despairingly declare: ‘So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.’ (Job 7:15) But my people, it’s never good when we choose death over life because it means that our faith is either extinct or at a very low ebb. In times of catastrophe and disaster that’s when out faith needs to be at its highest, at the top of its game, so that we can withstand the enemy’s fiery darts, and take comfort form the Lord’s Word and His many promises of sustenance and guidance. Friends, our beautiful planet, Mother Earth, is currently undergoing a series of inexplicable natural disasters, as well as many evil doings by men, with many of us believers suffering untold burdens and personal tragedy, but please, DON’T GIVE UP. Now is not the time to quit; it’s the time to dig deep down into our souls and find the reserves of faith that we all have buried there, and use it on behalf of our God, use it for His glory. That’s what believers are called on to do: NEVER GIVE UP, for once there is life, there is hope, and we are saved by hope. Therefore, we need to ‘hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.’ (1 Pet.1:13) Yes Friends, remember that our faith is fuelled by hope, for ‘faith is the substance (realization) of things hoped for, the evidence (conviction) of things not seen.’ (Heb.11:1) And though we have our struggles and go through all sorts of want and deprivation, with feelings of sadness and thoughts of giving up, if we stand strong, steadfast and true, like Job, in the end, the Lord will certainly bless us. ‘Also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before…So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.'(Job 42:10,12) It’s not easy Friends, but with the Lord’s help and our strong faith we can pull through. Please remember that. Much LOVE!…though the road be rough and rugged…Jesus will always help us through…if we call on Him…
Oh Friends, it’s several down and another one coming up! That’s a warm winter’s day. (smile) But yes, it’s supposed to be warm again in my neck of the woods. Thank you Lord! However, when it does turn back cold, as it surely will, we’re all going to be bemoaning and bewailing our condition like Job, without good reason though. We gleefully enjoy the good things but complain mournfully when the dark days come, as they must do. Job knows this, and so informs his wife, (Job 2:10) but still, with our human intellect, finds it difficult to comprehend his sudden catastrophic situation. Most of us would too, after doing our best, working hard and amassing an earthly fortune and a good family, considering ourselves fairly righteous, treating others decently, then suddenly our whole family and fortune are taken away for no apparent reason, and we’re covered from head to toe with boils and skin diseases. Brudder! That’s certainly enough for a man to hold his head and bawl, wonder why, and bring his complaint before his God who had so promised to look out for him. Then to make matters worse, his so-called friends, instead of comforting and consoling him in his time of loss and grief, gang up on him, remonstrate with him, claiming that he has some terrible hidden sin, why such calamity befell him. Oh my people, this life is certainly not easy, nor one with easy to find explanations. We all wonder why bad things happen to good people and vice versa, and that certainly confuses us. But that’s why we have our faith, to help us cope, especially in those rough times that seem unfair. We have to be like Job, who, when the full extent of his disaster hit him, he tore off his robe, shaved his head, fell down to the ground and worshipped the Lord, saying: ‘Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly (accused Him with wrong) (Job 1: 21-22) Ah mih friends, that’s the right attitude for believers to adopt when calamity befalls us. Hn! However, it’s much easier said than done, especially when we take our concerns to God but can’t get any reasonable answers, and sometimes no answers at all. But as Dr. Schuller (Hour of Power) likes to say, ‘why’ is one question our God doesn’t answer, because it will just cause arguments. We’ll never be satisfied with His reasoning since all we can see is the small, personal picture, while He takes a big, worldwide view. So going to God asking why, is often the wrong question. What we should be asking is, what now Lord? What do you want me to do now? But again Friends, all those things work well in theory, in practice though, too few of us are able to handle them. We bewail our birth, curse the day we were born, and end up questioning God’s purpose for making us, if He’s going to allow such tribulation in our lives. Like Job did: ‘Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? O that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.’ (Job 10:17-19) Yes my people, that’s often our reaction when adversity strikes us. We question God: ‘Are not my days few?’ As Bruh David declared in his prayer for self-understanding. ‘Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity (vapour). Selah.’ (Ps.39:5) And we continue in our plaintive voice to God: ‘Cease then, and let me be alone, that I may take comfort a little. Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death.’ (Job 10:20-21) Oh mih breddren, we all have experienced those dark, dismal days when we’re in dire straits, don’t know why, can’t see any daylight, and all we can do is beg God to ease up the pressure. Sometimes it gets so awful that like Job, we despairingly declare: ‘So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.’ (Job 7:15) But my people, it’s never good when we choose death over life because it means that our faith is either extinct or at a very low ebb. In times of catastrophe and disaster that’s when out faith needs to be at its highest, at the top of its game, so that we can withstand the enemy’s fiery darts, and take comfort form the Lord’s Word and His many promises of sustenance and guidance. Friends, our beautiful planet, Mother Earth, is currently undergoing a series of inexplicable natural disasters, as well as many evil doings by men, with many of us believers suffering untold burdens and personal tragedy, but please, DON’T GIVE UP. Now is not the time to quit; it’s the time to dig deep down into our souls and find the reserves of faith that we all have buried there, and use it on behalf of our God, use it for His glory. That’s what believers are called on to do: NEVER GIVE UP, for once there is life, there is hope, and we are saved by hope. Therefore, we need to ‘hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.’ (1 Pet.1:13) Yes Friends, remember that our faith is fuelled by hope, for ‘faith is the substance (realization) of things hoped for, the evidence (conviction) of things not seen.’ (Heb.11:1) And though we have our struggles and go through all sorts of want and deprivation, with feelings of sadness and thoughts of giving up, if we stand strong, steadfast and true, like Job, in the end, the Lord will certainly bless us. ‘Also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before…So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.'(Job 42:10,12) It’s not easy Friends, but with the Lord’s help and our strong faith we can pull through. Please remember that. Much LOVE!…though the road be rough and rugged…Jesus will always help us through…if we call on Him…
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