This mornings Bible reading in Job 1:1-3:26. Really makes you think differently ( or at least I do) about problems and struggles in life. Job had it all, money, great family, friends and he was happy. Times of testing did come for Job, when everything seemed to come crashing down all at the same time. I've had days where everything that could go wrong did, and more!
I think sometimes we think to ourselves: I did something wrong and God is punishing me, but maybe you have done everything right and God is just testing you. We half to trust God in the hard times in life and with the things we do not understand ( this is sooooo easy to write, but hard to walk out at times).A passage that stuck out to me from Job was " The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away, may the name of the Lord be praised". I mean really with all that Job had gone through he said " may the name of the Lord be praised"!! I pray for a heart like Job's!! Even in the hardest of hardest times, I want to say not just with my mouth but really with my heart MAY THE NAME OF THE LORD STILL BE PRAISED!!
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Reading Job definitely makes you look at problems and struggles differently. This year has been especially difficult for my husband Adam and I. We became missionaries and moved to Peru, something we (especially Adam) have been dreaming of and working toward for years. But when we arrived in May everything fell apart and has continued to be brutal since then. Its a long list of things - but basically nothing was what we thought it would be, and you are right - my first thought was/still is at times - What did we do wrong? Are we not supposed to be here? Did we come out of selfishness? But reading your post today I realized deep in my heart as I have always known that we ARE where we are supposed to be and with all that I am I want to persevere and win the battle.
ReplyDeleteI want so much to share all this with my husband right now but he is far away in a community for the next two weeks investigating a new people group. I just pray that the Lord will encourage him as I have been encouraged today and that in ALL we do the Name of the Lord will STILL be Praised!!