THINK AND THANK
Job 1, 2

As an acclaimed believer of the Word of God, if you think or reflect on the story of Job you will begin to thank the Lord. Calling God a good God is an understatement. God is greatly awesomely good for who He is. If you as a believer will think of Job, asking God for forgiveness for not being appreciative enough should be flooding heaven on your behalf. If Job, a man that was described as blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil, passed through such adversity without cursing out God, we all need to look back at months behind and ask God for forgiveness. At every visitation of the oppositional one, man’s position, or positions, crumbles. At the visitation of the adversary the one that opposes God, all of Job’s position crumbled. Job’s financial wealth crumbled, his household crumbled, his marriage crumbled, and every other position in his life crumbled. Above all, his wife, supposedly his better half, the one in position to give him support renounced him. “Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 2:9) Job’s friend also came to support, “Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, each one came from his own place—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment together to come and mourn with him, and to comfort him.” (Job 2:11) Job’s situation could not get any worse than it was when his friends that came with good intentions to encourage and support him also became subject of discouragement. Can whatever has kept you down be compared to that of Job? In most of believer’s challenges God is yet to step in, until all that man can give in support steps out. Only God, and God alone, will see you through and take the glory. In the course of challenges, there is no giving up, but looking up to God will deliver. Always remember, “…Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity…?”(Job 2:10) The breaking down of your positions can be very painful, and aggravating, but know that nothing can terminate the purpose and plan of God for your tomorrow. Job confessed it, “I know that You do everything and that no purpose of yours can be withheld from you.” (Job 42:2) In all of his broken down positions, he ended up living many years and seeing his children and grandchildren for four generations.

Prayer for today: In every area of my isolation, develop me to become a dedicated worshipper, and become more obedient to your word.