Job: may the name of the Lord be praised!

Wednesday/Thursday:

How would you feel if the only and very thing you wanted and asked God for specifically was taken away right before your eyes..?
You placed your hope and trust in Him and you asked Him

In the morning, just came across the verse:
Matthew 7:11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

But yet, he didn't give you what you asked or prayed for sincerely..

What if it's only something as simple or innocent as a piece of bread or a cake? Not only that, you also see your only 'precious' thing begin to swift away, or taken away. And I'm not even talking bout my job yet.

Disappointed..
How would you be able to praise God at that moment? To know and acknowledge that God is still good?

and upset..
When grief and pain snuff your heart and you are fighting tears, (and the times when pain escalates from your heart to your neck)


Upon thinking, God is a Father who give good gifts, and why he didn't give?
was because what I asked for wasn't good for me at the point in time!
(because the thing is bad for me, He's working something better in me e.g. discipline- keeping to my fast? wanted to show me something and/or He has something better in store).

And you try to console or reconcile yourself using this all circumstance encompassing verse "..in all things God works for the good of those who love Him" - Romans 8:28, to see the light of things.

Even the blog I wanted to send was not able to be sent out!


Nevertheless,

Job (in the bible Old Testament)
- his sons and daughters captured and taken away, the house collapsed and killed yet his other sons and daughters, his servants were murdered, his cattle and camels destroyed and stolen. (4 disasters in a row).

In modern times, that would be like your children attacked and taken hostage and killed by terrorist, your house was blew away by tsunami or bombed, and your workers, cars, possession and children killed all at once….

But Job upon that moment:
Job 1:20-21 -At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell down to the ground in worship and said: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart.
And said:
The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised."







God, you can take my job away.. But let me be just like Job.




Footnote: Job was a man who was blameless and upright. He feared God and shunned evil. (Job1:1)
The Disasters that befall him was incited by Satan to God to test him.

But instead of accusing and cursing God, he bowed down in worship and praise God.

the Title I would like: In likeness of Job - may the name of the Lord be praised!