IMITATE THEIR FAITH/JOB -Job Stood Firm

 Poor Job was in a state of despair when this long debate began. From the outsset, he admitted that his words sometimes amounted to  "wild talkl" and a "desperate man's sayings."  (Job 6:3, 26) We can  understand why.  His words reflected the agony of his heart.  They also reflectedc his limited perspective.  Because the trajedies that befell him and his famiy came so suddenly and even appeared to be supernatura; Job assumed that Jehovah was the cause. There were important events of which Job knew nothing, so he rested some of his reasoning on faulty assumptions.

However, Job was a man of deep strong faith.  His faith came through in much of what he said in that long debate-words that are trye, beautiful, and encouragting to us today.  When he spoke of the marvels of creation, he glorified God in ways that no human could without God's help.  For instance, he said that Jehovah is "suspending the earth  upon nothing," a  statement many centuries in advance  of scienfific knowledge. (Job 26:7) And when Job spoke of his own hope for the future, he expressed a confidence tha tother men of great faith have held as well.  Job believed that if death should take him, God would remember him, would miss him, and would eventually restore him to life. - JOB 14:13-15; HEBREWS 11:17-19, 35.

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