15/12/2022
Trust God, even in difficult times.
“Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face” Job 13:15.
Can we really trust a God like this, someone who allows a person like Job to suffer incredibly?
Human nature would say to forget about a God who would agree to inflicting pain and then abandon a man like Job when he needed God the most. Questioning God during suffering and unfairness of life is natural, and Job did struggle with the question, “Why me, God?”
Job knew truths about God that allowed him to trust God and has maintained his ways before Him. Suffering did not change how he lived or what he believed, but it did cause him to know God more deeply than he ever had before.
The book of Job is one of my favorites in the Bible, not because it is about suffering, but because it is about knowing God in a deeper way to the point that I can trust Him and say with Job,
“For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though worms destroy my body, yet in my flesh shall I see God…” (Job 19:25-26).
Do you know that your Redeemer lives and that He will stand at the latter day upon the earth to receive you into eternal glory? Even after your skin has been destroyed, yet in your flesh, you will see God. Trust God, even in difficult times.