Job 8-14

Morena!

So we left Job just after his friend Eliphaz had spoken to him and had some really simple ideas about how God punishes evil people and reward good people, which is true but God does not sit in heaven waiting for people to do evil so he can punish them, and this theory also cuts out the whole area of testing so we can trust God more.

Eliphaz said somethings that really upset Job, like his crazy dream. Sometimes we look to wrong people for advise and its not exactly the right advice, and we really take it on board. When we feel like some advise you get is not right (for God) take it to our leaders, (things like our friends trying to help us), God will always talk though our leaders as to what we need.

Another friend called Zophar speaks out after Job tells Eliphaz that he upset him. Zophar sounds like a very traditional thinking friend, probably much like if we went to a catholic preist, he says all the right things about God being fair and praying for hope. Which was all very good advise and not wrong (apart from that he said his children died because they were evil!) but Jobs situation wasnt that simple, and like us sometimes there is no simple answer to our problems, we may never know why things happen to us, like job, but If we trust God is fully in control and that all we have to do is trust Him everything will work out in the end.

Sometimes its hard to see past out noses when we are in hard situations, and seeing that thing will actualli get better, Hanging on to God in these times is crutial, and will get us our breakthrough, and we will draw closer to God and trust Him more through them..

In chapters 12-14 Job begins to mope again and not want to live, but reading into it I have found that he still didnt blame God for his sufferings, and the reason he wanted to die was because he felt like he had no control over anything he was doing or saying because of his condition, and therefore in all this did NOT want to insult God in anyway, and thought the easiest way to make sure he didnt offend God was to as God to take his life..

Job felt useless and worthless, which can relate to how we feel sometimes..yeah?? and this would have been totally normal in Jobs situation and im sure I would react more than Job did to all his bad happenings..But its important to know that God made us perfect, Gods masterpiece (Ephesians 2v10), and we are so special to Him, No matter what we do, He is always there for us.
Never let anyone tell you you are less than this!

Today we can learn form Job 8-14, that advice from others is not always right, because its not always the place to get our advise from. (Job said he didnt trust his closest friends and couldnt trust their advice 6v14-15) We need to always look up for advice (leaders) and never across (friends) especially friends that do not know God. God will always talk to our leaders about us..and they will always have some past testimony or verses for us, if nothing else.. Yeah our leaders are human but God has placed them there for a reason and they have all we need, to help us walk towards God everyday..

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Have an awesome day!

Abz