HE DID NOT DISAPPOINT GOD: Devotion for Tuesday March 15, 2016

HE DID NOT DISAPPOINT GOD: Devotion for Tuesday March 15, 2016

Text: Job 1:20 – 22    Memory verse: v 22   

We are fond of asking God why He allowed problems and troubles of life to come our way. The bad impression about Christian life is that most of us believe that nothing evil, sickness or problems of life should come our way. We all know that Christ’s suffering was His path to glory and severally in the scriptures, He intimated us that if He suffered, we shouldn’t expect anything less.

In our text, Job did not hide his overwhelming grief and he didn’t lose his faith in God; instead, his emotions showed that he was human and that he loved his family. Upon all these calamities, He did not charge God with acting unkindly towards him by asking God, Why? Rather, he accepted all with faith. Anyone who assigns motives to God’s actions is foolish. If Job had used hasty words against God (see Prov. 8:36), he would have sinned and injured himself.  

God created our emotions, and it is not sinful or inappropriate to express them as Job did. If you have experienced a deep loss, a disappointment, or heartbreak, admit your feelings to yourself and others, and grieve. Thereafter, pick yourself up and begin life again. God boasted about Job and despite the quick succession of calamities that came his way, he did not disappoint God.

Beloved, how do you handle the problems of life that confront you? Do you lose your faith simply because you are in another environment? Do you speak harshly and thereafter, you begin to regret? God expects us to show maturity of faith when passing through trials of life   

Food for Thought: We know true Christians during trials and temptation.  

Prayer: Help me never to disappoint you O Lord when I am faced with temptation.