Day 34 of God’s Love for Us

December 13, 2017

“Teach me, and I will be silent; and show me how I have erred” (Job 6:24). This should be our daily prayer! Even after Satan took everything away from Job, he said, “But it is still my consolation, and I rejoice in unsparing pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One” (Job 6:10).

His friend Bildad that came to console him, had this this to say, “Behold, God will not reject a man of integrity (or cast away the blameless); Nor will He uphold the evildoers” (Job 8:20 NASB (NKJ).

And his friend Eliphaz had this to say, “Behold, how happy is the man whom God reproves (corrects, disciplines), so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty. For He inflicts pain, and gives grief; He wounds, and His hands also heal. From six troubles he will deliver you, even in seven, evil will not touch you”(Job 5:17-19 NASB).

If we can grasp that our situations are just for discipline sake, like getting a spanking as a child, so that we learn something from them, our lives would be significantly better. Job praised the Lord even after losing all his worldly possessions, and living with that pain compounded with painful boils on his skin from head to foot; Job remained speaking graciously of the Lord. For he knew that all his possessions were from the Lord. We can learn a lot by emulating Job in our suffering and our lives. Pain can help us grow.