Yesterday’s devotional touched many areas of Job’s peculiar or outstanding characters which made God delighted in him. Despite all the unique blameless posture of Job, Satan was permitted to touch his prosperities but not his person. As seen in the previous devotional, God allowed Satan to touch Job because God knew that nothing can make Job curse Him. God had already gone ahead to provide double portions for all that Satan planned to destroy around Job. This answers why God allowed Satan to touch Job. Our main lesson today is here. Most of what happen to us that we blame God for allowing such happens to us has God’s marvelous benefits for us. As Christians, if we are endure enough, to wait till the end of the problems we accused God of looking away from us we would see God’s purposes at the end. As could be seen in Job 47: 1-10, God restored to Job everything Satan destroyed in double folds.
The beloved Christians, we see that Joseph’s sufferings in the hands of his brothers and his unjust imprisonment in Egypt was divine programmes. Is likely Joseph himself never knew this till he became the Prime Minister in Egypt. He would tell his brothers that to them they meant evil, but God meant it good for them. All his sufferings were for him to go to Egypt and later save his people from famine (Gen. 50: 20). In the mind of ordinary person, God seemed unfair to Jesus by allowing the Jews and the Romans executed Him. But to Jesus and God, His dying to save souls of men and women were reasons He came to the world. He would tell people “For this reason I came…” (John 18: 37). But Job looked away from his troubles and said: “But He knoweth the way that I take: when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot hath held His steps, His way have kept me, and not declined.” (Job 23: 10 – 11).
The beloved, how have you responded to the present hardship people are experiencing today in the world? Are you part of those blaming it on God’s insensitive to the plights of human beings, especially those running after upright living for God’s sake? God’s permitting evils to happen to His children does not mean He has abandoned them. He allowed Israelites to suffer in the hands of the Babylonians for 70 years. Many of them believed He has abandoned them to die in the exile. When He latter delivered them, He did not stop at that, He punished the Babylonians for dealing ruthlessly with His children (Jer. 51: 53 – 56). Today’s devotional is telling all God’s children under the yokes of those hating them to be focused on God. God has His day of remembering His children. King David knew this when he said: “Wait till the day of His salvation…” God’s day of Salvation here means the day of His coming to deliver His children from the hands of their executioners. That day will be terrible for all haters of God’s children. Please readers, wait and see that the LORD is good. Hold on till the day of this His goodness will come.
PRAYER:
Pray and ask God to hold you steady in His hands as you pass through the problems of this world deliberately design to cause you backslide till His glorious day will meet you in Jesus name.
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