I know that my redeemer lives

I am currently in the book of Job for my reading the Bible in a year, I read 4 chapters a day and than I try to meditate on it through out the day. Job has a whole lot going on my word. I had read the first few chapters before because I have related to Job in my life but man I'm on chapter 35 or 36 now and it's like come on. But the thing is God is humbling me through this and showing me how we do the same thing Job does. I'm not sure I understand it all but I'll share some of what I'm learning and I think is going on.



So basically Job was a man who was faithful to God. He loved the Lord and was found to be good in God's eyes, one day angels came to God to share what they had seen by roaming the earth, well on this day the devil goes with them to talk to God and God asks him if he noticed his servant Job, the devil responds yes but of course he will be faithful because he has everything he cold ever want, and he his blessed but take that from him and he will curse you. So God says ok take it away from him but do not take his life. Wow this is some heavy, powerful stuff, we see God's authority over everything here even the devil it is encouraging and sometimes even hard to take it. Some people may say wow God let that happen to Job, God is evil, but no God is sovereign we will never understand the ways of God, his ways are higher than ours and he knows what is best for us even if it means taking something away, and he uses things to test our faith and our trust in him. I see in this that God would not let something happen to me that I could not handle. I also see that everything the enemy uses for evil God uses for good.

So the devil takes away all that Job has and his family except for his wife (which later tells Job to curse God and die, ladies this is not how to be a Biblical woman or how to help the men in our lives, we can learn what not to do from his wife). So what does Job do when he finds out its all gone...he gets on the ground and worships God and says I serve a God who gives and takes a way!!!! This is big...do we do this? Do we worship God in ALL things even the hard things do we say ok God you give and take away so I will trust you or do we get angry at God because we think we deserve something? The truth is God does not owe us anything....period...nothing...we deserve death but because of His grace we receive eternal life. Than the devil messes with Jobs body and makes him have all this pain.....

This is where it gets tricky and confusing for me and I am trying to make sure I understand what is going on. It also gets annoying because chapter after chapter Job is complaining. Than in the middle of the complaining he says "I know that my Redeemer lives and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God" Job 19: 25-26 than he goes back to complaining

while all this is going on his friends have come to encourage him, but the more they try the angrier Job gets with them, he wants them to let him stay in his piety, he basically starts saying look I never did anything wrong you can not find fault in me but look what happened. Where it gets confusing is trying to figure out if these friends are leading him back to God or taking him furthur away and making it worse, and if they are really cursing God (I just read the rest of the chapter and God is not happy w/Jobs friends so I think that answers my question :) )Where I am at now his friend is telling him off, and telling the rest of his friends off who have not been helping and telling him that he needs to look to God not himself, and to stop thinking he is righteous and credit himself but to credit God. He also was saying that the evil is not from God, what a good friend. This section made me think about me and well humans in general how often does "bad" things happen to us and we get inside ourselves and start believing lies and start blaming God and thinking I don't sin as much as so and so, so why me????? We also get angry when our friends try to bring us out of the dark into the light

we can learn so much from Job this is only scratching the service and is probably pretty simple, but God is so amazing to show me these things over and over to lovingly and patiently teach me the same things over and over. God is good, he gives and takes a way, but he knows whats best, God is alive and he is my redeemer. God loves us and works for the good in all things of those who love him. Praise God today for knowing what is best for you and for making that happen even if he has to take something away that might hurt at first.