Job 3, 4, and Matthew 6: 1-18
Imagine traveling with Jesus for a
moment. The crowds, the family members
begging Him to heal their loved ones, the hurts that showed up everywhere He
went, the love that He showed for the crowds to keep coming and building. People knew He was special after all, many
walked away from all they knew to travel with Him. Everyone wanted to be a witness to all that
this special man did and said, they wanted to be a friend to Jesus!
Do we still? Do we want to be a part of something
special? He allows each of us to make
this choice for ourselves. Jesus allows us to travel with Him everyday, but do we get it?
I imagine all the hustle and bustle of
everyone moving wanting as close to Jesus as they can possibly get and yet the
little bit of awe that kept them back at the same time. People are traveling with Jesus that He
healed, the disciples, the women that are helping to pay the way for the
ministry to continue. They supported
in the background; did you notice it?
Some of them are special enough for their name to be mentioned in God’s
Word and I believe they knew they were special because of Jesus!
Jesus preached on good soil. When it comes to you “hearing” from God are
you getting a good signal? Is it full of
static? The soil in your life is it
producing fruit? Are you helping build
the kingdom by sharing what Jesus is doing in your life?
I encourage you to share what Jesus is
doing right now in your own journey! He
is at work everywhere and once again you are special because of Jesus, just
like the women in the story. Because of
Jesus, we are all special!
I ponder the Job chapters we read this
morning. Job was beginning to feel the
pain of all he was suffering with and he was able to voice his pain. I believe he was able to voice his pain,
because he realized just how big God is and that God would understand where he
was in the moment. WE all have moments
and always know in your heart that God is soooooo much bigger than any of us
can grasp that it is okay to voice your true thoughts and feelings to Him. He loves you and He knows already. It’s not a big surprise to Him and He wants
relationship with you. In a relationship
honesty is a must, so I believe God wants a “true relationship” with real
thoughts and real feelings, the good and the bad and He will love us through
the difficult times.
Did you find the friends words comforting
and helpful or what? I mean Job finally
opened up about his pain and do you think this helped him. Truly I am not sure how I feel about this and
I’m going to leave it open for you all to respond. I am going to ponder it the rest of the day,
but I do know that we are all special and that we are God’s children! He loves us through the good times and the
bad. Always remember that Satan is prowling
around wanting to attack when we are down, when we are at our lowest, when we
are vulnerable, and that God will hold our hand if we allow Him to see us
through! Take His hand and let Him lead
you!
Sweet blessings,
Debbie
1 comment:
The friends did not know all of the details of why these calamities had come upon Job. Most importantly that Job had not done anything wrong but that God had allowed Satan to do this to Job. So I try to keep their lack of information in mind as they speak. Isn't that the the case for most of us when we judge a situation? We don't know all of the details.
From Matthew 8: 3, I love where Jesus said He was willing to heal the centurion's servant. A little futher in v.14-17, Scripture says that Jesus healed to fulfill prophecy(Isaiah.) Is that where people are coming from when they say that healing was for then not for now? Does anybody have some thoughts on that?
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