Day 27
Wednesday
When Trouble
Brings Triumph
Job 2:10
…Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
Our tendency to remember the bad and forget the good is evidenced
in the life of Job. His name has become
synonymous with trials. But perhaps we
need to focus on the triumph Job experienced through his trials.
Job valued four things in his life: faith, family, fortune, and
friends. Satan tried to extinguish them
all, hoping Job would curse God.
Instead, we find a grieving Job responding to the greatness of God,
reflecting on the goodness of God, and refusing to assign guilt to God. Instead of Job, Satan might have been the one
cursing! Job kept his integrity
intact. God was enough for him---with or
without the other things he valued.
Do you bless God when you don’t understand what He’s doing in your
life? Job models for us the kind of
believer who trusts God in the mist of severe and unexplainable
circumstances. Job expressed his grief
to God, and God wants to hear the cries of our hearts too. But let’s remember Job for the triumph he
experienced through his testing---he remained guiltless before God. Open your eyes today to the absolute,
all-sufficiency of Almighty God. He is
enough!
Recommended Reading: Job1:1-22
Quote
He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God
only.
C. S. Lewis
From: “Turning Points” Magazine and Devotional
Turning Points
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