10 Profound Lessons to Learn from the Long Term Suffering of Job
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8. BE CAREFUL IN YOUR COMPLAINTS TO GOD, BUT POUR OUT YOUR HEART BEFORE HIM
You are familiar with Psalm 62:8 which says, "Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us."
Job did this. He poured his heart out. God was pleased. God is interested in our friendship. He comes to be our God, to know us and to make Himself known to us. God is much more pleased with reality and relationship and you see it over and over in the Psalm we have just read and in the book of Job as well. God is not interested in polite phoniness and superficiality. He is interested in us pouring our hearts
9. HOLD FAST TO GOD NO MATTER WHAT!
And lastly,
10. HOLD FAST TO THE GOSPEL NO MATTER WHAT!
Of course, we don't have a full revelation of the gospel in the book of Job, but Job is a picture of what the Christian life is to be. Job is a picture in many ways of Christ. And then we have this confidence in the new covenant in Romans 8:33, 35: "Who shall bring any charge against God's elect?... Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?"
Paul goes on in Romans 8:38-39 to say the following: "For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Let us pray.
Father, we thank you for the life of Job. We thank you for the protection that you gave him even in the midst of his chronic and long-term suffering and we thank you that you preserved him. And even though he sank low, and even though the light became dark and even though all of life as it were crushed in upon his soul and he experienced the dark night of the soul, yet you sustained him. And we give you praise and we give you thanksgiving that that was the case. And Lord we know that we are sustained by the same Christ, the same Spirit, the same grace, the same mercy that Job experienced. And so might we be people prepared for suffering, prepared to counsel others in suffering, prepared to trust your sovereign hand, prepared to look to our Lord Jesus Christ for our sustenance and we pray in His grate name, Amen.
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8. BE CAREFUL IN YOUR COMPLAINTS TO GOD, BUT POUR OUT YOUR HEART BEFORE HIM
You are familiar with Psalm 62:8 which says, "Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us."
Job did this. He poured his heart out. God was pleased. God is interested in our friendship. He comes to be our God, to know us and to make Himself known to us. God is much more pleased with reality and relationship and you see it over and over in the Psalm we have just read and in the book of Job as well. God is not interested in polite phoniness and superficiality. He is interested in us pouring our hearts
9. HOLD FAST TO GOD NO MATTER WHAT!
And lastly,
10. HOLD FAST TO THE GOSPEL NO MATTER WHAT!
Of course, we don't have a full revelation of the gospel in the book of Job, but Job is a picture of what the Christian life is to be. Job is a picture in many ways of Christ. And then we have this confidence in the new covenant in Romans 8:33, 35: "Who shall bring any charge against God's elect?... Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?"
Paul goes on in Romans 8:38-39 to say the following: "For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Let us pray.
Father, we thank you for the life of Job. We thank you for the protection that you gave him even in the midst of his chronic and long-term suffering and we thank you that you preserved him. And even though he sank low, and even though the light became dark and even though all of life as it were crushed in upon his soul and he experienced the dark night of the soul, yet you sustained him. And we give you praise and we give you thanksgiving that that was the case. And Lord we know that we are sustained by the same Christ, the same Spirit, the same grace, the same mercy that Job experienced. And so might we be people prepared for suffering, prepared to counsel others in suffering, prepared to trust your sovereign hand, prepared to look to our Lord Jesus Christ for our sustenance and we pray in His grate name, Amen.
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