My Redeemer Lives

If you know anything about the life of Job, you know his circumstances went from fabulous to devastating in a single day. He literally lost everything except his wife and his health. And the next day he lost his health.

I’m not sure I could have endured such a trial. IF I survived it, I know I would not have had his humility and grace.

Friends came to “comfort” him, but as the saying goes, with friends like that who needs enemies?

Job endured lectures amidst his honest asking for answers from God, and yet before God finally answered him, Job could look up at the heavens and say, “I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.” A few verses later he adds, “I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!”

Job never lost hope in God. Though Job had not seen the Redeemer yet, he knew he would.

He didn’t say “I think I will see Him.” Or “I hope He lives and will come as He said.”

He said, “I KNOW. And in the end, He will stand on the earth.

Peter spoke of scoffers in those days leading to the end who would question God’s promise to come and judge the world. And His promise to make all things new. Don’t scoff. Search.

I challenge any scoffers, any whose faith has been shipwrecked or who deliberately forget what God has done in the past to take 2023 and see if God is true. Read the Bible. Read the Gospels and make it your mission to get to know the real Jesus. See where that leads you.

Job KNEW. Despite ALL of the horrible heartache and loss he lived through, he never wavered in believing that God is true. God keeps His promises. And He WILL stand on the earth in the end. And we will see it.

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