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Weekly devotionals from Pastor Mike Fabarez Senior Pastor at Compass Bible Church in Aliso Viejo, CA and host of daily Focal Point Radio broadcast.
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Worship Always
The
suffering of Job was intense. To bury all of your children after a catastrophic
storm is doubtless a devastating pain that would cause many to shake their fist
at God. Instead, as you know, Job did not. He did take on the ancient near-Eastern
sign of a person in severe emotional pain (“he tore his robe and shaved his
head”), but in a spectacular demonstration of true perspective, Job “fell to
the ground and worshipped” (Job 1:20). He knew to think, much like Peter when
Jesus asked him if he wanted to leave him, “Lord, to whom shall we go?”
(Jn.6:67-68). He knew that it was God who was in control and while he brought
pain, he was really the only One who could bring comfort (Lam.3:32). More than
that, Job’s high view of God’s sovereignty led him to gratefully credit God
with the gift of his children in the hour God had taken them away – “The Lord
gave and the Lord has taken away” (Job 1:21b). Job, in his dark hour of loss,
had no sense of entitlement. He understood the gifts of God’s grace and was
able to say as one undeserving of them, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
and naked I will depart” (Job 1:21a). In a day when most of us have bought
Satan’s lie that we are somehow entitled to the “good life,” we can learn from
the first twenty-two verses of the book of Job that when, for whatever reason,
God chooses to revoke, withhold or postpone his generous gifts, we can still
worship him as a good God who never does wrong. May it be that in any and every
circumstance we can say with Job, “May the name of the Lord be praised” (Job
1:21c).
For more devotionals sermons and resources go to http://www.focalpointministries.org/
For more devotionals sermons and resources go to http://www.focalpointministries.org/
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