he lost everything... he did not only loose everything but he also got soooo sick, we can't even imagine how he must have felt..
on top of it all his wife and his so called friends were giving him a hard time... talk about NO HOPE, NO FUN... total misery... and yet, he wouldn't curse God...eventually though he crumbles under the pressure and complains...
then at the end, when God shows up, God, the One who had allowed Satan to have his way with him,.. when God showed up, Job is humbled beyond compare....
listen to this...
Then Job replied to the LORD :
"I know that you can do all things;
no plan of yours can be thwarted.
You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?'
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.
"You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak;I will question you,
and you shall answer me.'
My ears had heard of you
but now my eyes have seen you.
Therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes."
Wow... talk about being put in your place.. Job, the most righteous man on the earth at that time...
But then, see what God did then... first of all He takes care of the "friends"... and then, this is what He did:
The LORD blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. And he also had seven sons and three daughters. The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. And so he died, old and full of years.
WOW.... now there is a lesson for me...
Lord, give me the patience of Job, but most of all let me see you for who you are so that I may be humbled, falling to the ground before you...
so this is what I ask:
let me live my life following you as good as I can by your grace, not worrying if what you have for me will satisfy me...because I know this for a fact:
You will satisfy me in the morning with your unfailing love, so that I may sing for joy and be glad all my days.....
