.Wednesday, April 14, 2010 ' 8:32 PM Y
Hey! Shiang Lin here.
Wanna share something I've learnt from devotion a few days back.
I've read about Job and I find that what he has gone through is like what we're going through nowadays. So being interested, I went to read about him from the internet.
It's how this goes,
Job was a man of unparalleled and genuine piety. He was also a man of well-deserved prosperity. He was a godly gentleman, extremely wealthy, a fine husband, and a faithful father. In a quick and brutal sweep of back-to-back calamities, Job was reduced to a twisted mass of brokenness and grief. The extraordinary accumulation of disasters that hit him would have been enough to finish off any one of us today.
Job is left bankrupt, homeless, helpless, and childless. He's left standing beside the ten fresh graves of his now-dead children in a windswept valley. His wife is heaving deep sobs of grief as she kneels beside him, having just heard him say, "Whether our God gives to us or takes everything from us, we will follow Him." She leans over and secretly whispers, "Why don't you just curse God and die?"
His misery turns to mystery with God's silence. If the words of his so-called friends are hard to hear, the silence of God becomes downright intolerable. Not until the thirty-eighth chapter of the book does God finally break the silence, however long that took. Even if it were just a few months, try to imagine. You've become the object of your alleged friends' accusations, and the heavens are brass as you plead for answers from the Almighty, who remains mysteriously mute. Nothing comes to you by way of comfort. It's all so unfair; you've done nothing to deserve such anguish.
When we compare what we've gone through with his, it looks like nothing. He had whatever he needed in life. Whatever he had is just gone within a day. Imagine how bad such a day would be... Yet in all this situation, he still remained faithful to God. I want to have this kind of faith. I want to continue to be faithful, continue to pray even when God choose to be slient. I want to praise God in all kind of situation. You?
