When All Seems to Fail

I know people who have prayed for their loved ones to be healed of a deadly sickness and they died anyway. They may feel guilty because they feel they did not have enough faith or others may imply the same.

Let’s look at Job. He was a righteous man. Yet God allowed the enemy to steal his children, his health and most of his wealth. Why? God allowed it to show the enemy that even if God took everything away from Job, he would still serve Him. When things go bad Satan, the enemy, wants us to lose our faith. He wants us to think God does not care about us or worse, doesn’t exist. We may ask, “Where is God?”

As we continue to trust in God to the very end, we have our reward. We can see in the end of the book of Job, that he was restored all of his losses. But the interesting part is Job was restored when he prayed for his friends who tormented him during his tragedy. So, it is important that when we come out on the other side that we come out in a forgiving spirit.

God uses Job’s testimony so that we can identify with him in his tragedy and also use his faithfulness as an encouragement that God is ultimately in control. So, when all “seems” to fail, keep your eyes on God.

“Then the LORD said to Satan, ‘Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?’” Job 1:8  NKJV

“And the LORD restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.”  Job 42:10  NKJV

Trusting God requires obedience.