Stand, when all and everyone is against you…

The story of Job is a great story in the Bible. The story was written even before the Bible. In Job’s day, he had no Christian radio, Christian TV, or even a Christian church to attend… No Christian books or any literature to read. He only believed in an invisible God. All of the other people worshipped idols built by the hands of man.

Satan hated Job! I want to encourage you this week to read the book of Job. Satan told God, “If you take all of Job’s blessings away, then Job will not serve you.” You know the story… Job lost everything. He lost 500 oxen, 7,000 sheep, houses, family… He lost everything.

On top of this, Job was smitten with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto the crown of his head. “And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.” (Job 2:8)

Job’s own wife told her husband, “Curse God, and die.” (Job 2:9)

All of Job’s friends had left him; everyone. Yet, in the middle of all of this, Job said, “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.” (Job 19:25-26)

The Lord brought Job through his trial… “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. He had also seven sons and three daughters.” (Job 42:12-13)

The Lord gave Job a “double portion” of what he had lost. The Lord is about to do the same for you!

Bobby Burnette