The faith of Job

As part of todays lesson of James "Mercy Triumphs", James spoke about Job. Poor Job. He had a great amount of property and family and Satan was so sure of himself that if he took it all away that Job would curse God. But what happened?? Everything was taken away and Job still prayed to God and still loved God the same.

What faith! What encouragement! Job was at the bottom, lost all of his property, lost all of his family, everything! and still he prayed and worshiped God. To be more like Job. To have that kind of faith and obedience to God. I want to be like that so much! I want to be closer to God to hear Him and see Him in all that I do. It is so hard sometimes though. But as Job did we should pick up ourselves and dust ourselves off and keep going, praising God through it all.

When faced with hard times I tend to be like an ostrich and bury my head in the sand. I don't like to be confrontational but what I am going through right now I can't hardly sleep because of it! There is one thing that starts my defensive mechanisms more than anything and that is being disrespected....How awful is that. Like last night I was watching "Fly Wheel" (of course I fell asleep right as the crooked car salesman, mean to his wife and child, finally got what he was doing wrong) But it reminded me so much of things right now in my life. I am so glad that God brings us what we need at the exact moment we need it. No more No less! We learned that from the slaves from the King with the manna from heaven.

But anyway, Like I said, don't disrespect me! I can put up with a lot and have but that just takes the cake and I don't know what to do!

Dear God, please help me to see Your plan in all of this anger and turmoil that I/we are going through right now. I know it doesn't seem like anger sometimes but You know deep down that right now all I can see is red and it is taking every ounce of me to be patient and not explode! I want to be patient. Thank you for bringing me right what I needed today with the lesson of Job. I pray for the community at Avondale Park, that Your glory will be shown to all of those people that will be willing to hear of your mercy of sending Jesus to us so that He can die to save us from our sins. God, I love you so much and pray for healing of my marriage. Amen.