“Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverence.” James 1:2-3

In times of severe testing, our first question must not be : “How can I get out of this ?” but: “What can I get out of this ?” Job’s wife thought she had the problem solved; but if Job had followed her counsel, it would have only made things worse. FAITH IS LIVING WITHOUT SCHEMING. It is obeying God in spide of feelings, circumstances, or consequences, knowing that He is working out His perfect PLAN in His WAY and in His TIME. The two things Job would not give up were his FAITH in God, and his INTEGRITY, and that’s what his wife wanted him to do. Even if God did permit evil to come into his life, Job would not rebel against God by taking matters into his own hands. Job had never read “The Letters of Samuel Rutherford”, but he was following the counsel of that godly Scottish pastor who suffered greatly:

“It is faith’s work to claim and challenge loving-kindness out of all the roughest strokes of God.”

Job was going to trust God, and even argue with God ! and not waste his sufferings or his opportunity to receive what God had for him. When life is difficult, it’s easy to give up; but giving up is the worst thing we can do.

A proffesor of History said: “If Columbus had turned back, nobody would have blamed him, but nobody would gave remembered him either.”

If you want to be MEMORABLE, sometimes you have to be MISERABLE !

In the end, Job’s wife was reconcilied to her husband and to the Lord, and God gave her another family. Job 42:13. We don’t know how much she learned from her sufferings; but we can assume it was a growing experience for her.

(din  Be Patient (Job): Waiting On God in Difficult Times (The BE Series Commentary) by Warren W. Wiersbe)

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,,Whenever you meet a person who feels compelled to explain everything, who has a pat answer for every question and a fixed formula for solving every problem, you are back at the ash heap with Job’s three friends.

When that happens, remember the words of the Swiss psychologist Paul Tournier:

We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems, no snags; a religion that would allow us to escape from our miserable human condition; a religion in which contact with God spares us all strife, all uncertainty, all suffering and all doubt; in short, a religion without the cross. (Reflections [New York: Harper & Row, 1976], 142)

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