Poetry: Job 1-2

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My highlights:

• Job 1:1 "¹ In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil"
•  ²⁰ At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship ²¹ and said:
     “Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
     and naked I will depart.^[c]
  The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away;
     may the name of the LORD be praised
• ¹⁰ He replied, “You are talking like a foolish^[e] woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?”

My Take: Job was an amazing man, like yesterdays post about being a Psalm man, the fortitude of Job not to abandon his faith despite having everything (work, children, animals) taken away from, he still praised the Lord for his ability to be able to praise him. In the midst of one of the deepest darkest times in his life, he still found a way to call out to the Lord. Job knew that the Lord was still in control. I only wish that I had that much control when 1/100th of what happens to Job happens to me. I lose my temper and am ready to curse God. If anything, Job 1-2 and stretched me and let me know if the lengths and distances I can go where things that are bad and happen in my life yet I can still be reassured that Christ is in control. It's allways interesting that we pray that bad things don't happen to us in our prayers, but never pray as much that when a bad things happens that we can still praise God for amazing grace and mercy. I would never want what happened to Job to happen to me, but I would hope that in the midst of some of the most wretched news that you can ever receive in your life that I would still hold true to my creator and rely on him for comfort.