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Today is Friday, June 25, 2010 and we are reading through the Bible in a year. Today's message comes from the reading of the Book of Job, chapters 41-42. If you would like to read the chapters along with us here online you can Click Here to read them or copy & paste this link onto your browser: http://www.readytofollow.com/bible-june-25

Today's Message: Just Getting By

No matter if we are rich, poor, famous, or infamous, we all face trials in life, we can worry and stress ourselves out, but all that does is create more problems. The difference between Christians and people who live in the world is of course, we have Jesus. We can accept that the circumstances will never change and do what is needed to just get by or we can spit in the devils face and tell him I have a bigger God on my side then what you are trying to defeat me with. Amazingly, you can be rich, poor, famous, or infamous, and be accepted into the Kingdom of God, which is available only through Jesus Christ. “For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” - Romans 10:11-13. Christ accepts everyone who calls upon Him, He is our strength to get through these trials. We do not need psychology, prescriptions, or twelve step programs, we need the Word of God. That will be the difference between just getting by and seeing victory won over our battles.

Job was a faithful, godly man, prosperous, famous, and probably consider to be like a king in his day, in a matter of days he lost his family, wealth, friends, wife, and health. On top of that the only four people that would talk to Him were condemning him. He could not understand why he was going through so much suffering and although he did not curse God he did question why He was not answering him. Suddenly a whirlwind appears and God speaks out of it, this time God has questions for Job. God asked Job about eighty questions knowing that he could not possibly answer one of them. He elaborates on the power and strength of just one of His creations, “Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?...None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me? Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine. I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.” - Job 41:1-3,10-12. God tells Job that you can not possibly know everything about this powerful creature, he is mine and I am not going to reveal to you or anyone how I created him. God was trying to get Job to realize just how little all of us know about the things we already accept just by faith. Incidentally a leviathan is a type of dinosaur, proving that dinosaurs are not billions of years old as scientist claim, but less than six thousand. The world strives on trying to figure out how God created everyone and thing, but the truth is they will never know. They might come up with these lame theories, but they are only ways to get people away from the truth. We are all born with the knowledge of God, it is over the years that one becomes distant to that fact as they allow the world to enter their lives. “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.” - Romans 1:20,21.

There is a revelation of God and His Word that goes beyond just believing the Truth and doctrines of the Bible. Those who have faith in God, as Job did, do not search for answers to all of life's problems, but simply trust our loving Creator to get us through them. All fears and frustrations will vanish as we truly trust in His loving care. No one, through human reasoning, is able to understand why the godly suffer, but we can come to the understanding the Job did. He answers God by saying, “I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” - Job 42:2-6. Job is saying, “I know You can do anything, I may not understand everything, but I am no one to question You. This brought Job to the realization that he was not meant to know all the answers to life's problems, he just had to trust God and keep living by faith. We too must come to the place where we realize we do not know all the answers, but we trust God. He knows what He is doing, every trial, every circumstance, every situation we get into, is not by chance, it is all to get us to seek and put our trust and faith in God. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” - Hebrews 11:1.

Okay, so you are having some problems. Do you want to just get by, drowning yourself in whatever it is that you use to try and mask the problems? Or do you put your trust in God, get in His Word, seek His guidance, and face the problems head on, powered by His strength? Pity can only take us so far before we get a lashing. That lashing might as well be from God, because He has far more mercy upon us that any person would here on earth does. Job might have gotten a bit of a lashing from God, but in the end he and his friends knew not to question God's authority. “And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job....And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before....So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.”- Job 42:7,8,10,12. Like I said in a previous message, it is okay to ask God questions, but to question Him is not. Job not only received great spiritual insight though his suffering, he got closer to God, and also got blessed with twice as much as he had before. We do not have to just get by, we can see victory won over our circumstances, sufferings, and situations. “For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.” - I John 5:3,4. Praise God!

Enjoy the rest of your day/night and weekend
God Bless You, I am praying for you,
Christina

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