Day 18 - JOB (The Believer’s Proper Response to Tragedies)
And he said: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord." 22 In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong. (Job 1 :21-22)
In one single day, Satan, acting with God’s permission, kills Job’s entire family and his many servants except for his wife, destroyed all his properties and livestock, and inflicts Job with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. Yet in all the tragedies that befell him, “Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.” Most people including many believers would become bitter against God when unbearable tragedies happen in their lives such as what happened to Job. When tragedy happens in our lives, let us remember the end of Job’s life and how God blessed him because of his complete trust in God so that we would not fall into the mistake of blaming God:
Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys. He also had seven sons and three daughters. And he called the name of the first Jemimah, the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-Happuch. In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations. So Job died, old and full of days. (Job 42:12-17)
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