Greeting my Dear Friends,
After a long break, I have taken time to write something that you
might find interesting... It’s a story from the Bible which I believe is one of
the most encouraging and meaningful piece of literature.
It’s the story of Job, one man who went through the most drastic
circumstances in life a person can bear. He was desolated for being
faithful to God, which contradicts from the majority of the belief we have in common,
the “Retribution Theology”, which means “Do Good => Get Blessed” or “Do Bad
=> Get Blasted”.
Job did everything good and righteous in Gods view, however he did
not know why he was put into so many trials and tribulations. The Bible tells
us that Job was an upright and holy person and did what pleased god. However when
Satan questioned God of the faith of Job in him, God allowed Satan to test Jobs
faithfulness to God.
As a result Job had the extreme of tribulations in his life,
Family, health and wealth, he lost them all but still he hanged on to God. He
was trusting God when faith was taking a fumble. It’s easy for us to read the
Book of Job and understand how much of faith a person can have in God under
severe situations.
If we put ourselves in Jobs shoes, we can only imagine the pain
and suffering he had to go through.
Take a deep breath, and look around you, see how much you are
blessed with, yet we have always reasons to be unhappy or to complain. Let me
introduce you to a modern day Job, from a very young age he had to realize how
much less he had to do, but now he is the unthinkable. I encourage you to Google
and YouTube this guy and see about his story to tell.
Nick Vujicic, do a search and see what you find. I will not type
anymore words, just check out one of the videos and you will know what I am talking
about.
Finally something to ponder: We always think of the “Why”
questions in our lives, however if you replace it with the”Who” is our God
answer, we can take refuge and hope blossoms. This is how God revealed his
mighty awesome power to Job.
“The worst despair is, suffering without meaning” – Philip Yancy.
Nick
Vujicic - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrV_ZvwZRvw
