Desires and Fears

Reading about Job scares me! It’s easier to read about God’s punishment for wrong, but Job didn’t do anything wrong! He was found righteous in God’s eyes! To have the faith of Job!! His life was in God, not his family or possessions. My favorite Bible verse that I have claimed over and over is Psalm 37:4 “Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.” I have never applied that verse to Job, but His desire HAD to be in God, that is the only way he could survive all that happened to him.
Job 3:25 is one of the saddest verses in the Bible to me: “What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me.” Since I became a mother almost 9 years ago, my worst fear is losing ONE of my children – not to mention ALL of them. I think that is every mother’s worst fear. I was looking up Psalm 37:4 and typed in 34:4 instead. This is what I found: “I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears”. How wonderful that we have the promises of Psalm 34:4 I pray my desire will always be found in God ALONE and that He will deliver me “from all my fears”!!