Job 11-14, Matthew 20: 1-19, Psalm 18: 43-50
Job 12: 7-10 (ESV)
“But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of
the heavens, and they will tell you; or the bushes of the earth, and they will
teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these
does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life
of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.”
In verses 7 through 10 from Job 12, Job explains to his
friend Zophar that all of God’s creatures know the power of God. They know that
God made them and that he knows all about them, and that their whole life is overseen
by God. I find Job’s response interesting since he seems to have forgotten that
God made him as well, and that God has a hand in everything he does. Job doesn’t
see his present difficulties as coming from God or a testing from God, at not
yet. Job wonders why God allowed such difficulties to come into his life, and
he starts to doubt in his faith in God. Job ask later what sin he committed
because he knew he had committed no sins.
Job shows us that our faith in God can be shaken when we are
facing great difficulties. But if Job had not gone through the suffering he
did, his faith would not have been strengthened. God was testing Job and knew
that Job would eventually reason through all of his doubts and come back to his
faith.
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