Kiss The Wave | Week Three
“I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited me against him, to destroy him for no good reason.” Job 2:3
#1 I’m better off dead
May the day I was born perish, and the night that said,
“A boy is conceived.” If only that day had turned to darkness! Job 3:3-4
“Why did you bring me out of the womb? I should have died and never been seen.
I wish I had never existed but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
Job 10:18-19
I cannot relax or be calm; I have no rest, for turmoil has come. 3:26
#2 I did something wrong
Consider: Who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest[b] been destroyed? In my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble reap the same. Job 4:7-8
I have seen a fool taking root, but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home.
His children are far from safety. They are crushed at the city gate, with no one to rescue them.
For distress does not grow out of the soil, and trouble does not sprout from the ground. Job 5:3-4, 6
Since your children sinned against him, he gave them over to their rebellion.
But if you earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy, if you are pure and upright, then he will move even now on your behalf… Job 8:4-6
As for you, if you redirect your heart and spread out your hands to him in prayer— if there is iniquity in your hand, remove it, and don’t allow injustice to dwell in your tents— then you will hold your head high, free from fault. You will be firmly established and unafraid. Job 11:13-15
“This came about so that God’s works might be displayed in him.” – Jesus (John 9:3)
#3 God is unfair
Why do the wicked continue to live, growing old and becoming powerful?
Their children are established while they are still alive, and their descendants, before their eyes. Their homes are secure and free of fear; no rod from God strikes them.
Yet they say to God, “Leave us alone! We don’t want to know your ways.
One person dies in excellent health, completely secure and at ease. His body is well fed, and his bones are full of marrow. Yet another person dies with a bitter soul, having never tasted prosperity.
But they both lie in the dust, and worms cover them. Job 21:7-9, 14, 23-26
#4 God isn’t powerful
But I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the end he will stand on the dust.
Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet I will see God in my flesh.
I will see him myself; my eyes will look at him, and not as a stranger.
My heart longs within me. Job 19:25-27
We count as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job’s endurance and have seen the outcome that the Lord brought about—the Lord is compassionate and merciful. James 5:11