The Crystal Lady
Thought For The Day
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Job |
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perfect man. He feared God and he avoided evil. He prospered, had a large family and even when bad things started to happen to him, he still kept his faith. One day a big wind came and he lost his children. Then his health began to fail and his friends began to blame everything on Job. One man told him that he never had seen bad things happen to good men. He thought Job had brought his own misfortune by his own wickedness. He told Job to just hold on, things would eventually get better and Job should be happy that God was correcting him. Sometimes we ask, like Job did, questions about why we are here. Job asks in chapter 7, "is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?. Are not his days also like the days of a hireling.?" Job also looked for the rewards of his work and found his life, some times to be just months of vanity and his nights often full of weariness. His days flew by endlessly and many days seemed with out hope. There were times that we was tormented with bad dreams and visions. He desired death more than living. He begs God to pardon him even though he does not know exactly what sin he has committed to make God so mad at him. Job knows that he is not inferior to his critics and he seems well versed in understanding of God's ways. Job calls his friends " physicians of no value" But even so Job stakes a stand as he says "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him, But I will maintain mine own ways before him. God is also my salvation, for an hypocrite shall not come before Him." Many times when learned men decide to speak for God, they don't always have a direct line to God. Sometimes they put words in God's mouth. We need to step back and take a look at the speaker and see the kind of fruit is growing on his tree of life. For it is said, by their fruits we will know them. People who can heal the sick can go around quietly healing and they don't need a T.V. camera to follow them around. We can't remove the mote from our brothers eye. we can only work on our own. It is not for us to judge our fellow man when they are going through a rough time. We don't have any way of knowing if that person is suffering from the laws of Karma or if he volunteered to live a troublesome life so that he might glorify God. There are some who think we choose our life and our parents before we get born here on Earth. Our job is to lend support and comfort to those who are struggling, help the ones we can and pray for those we can't. You will find the story of Job in the King James Bible |