Job 13 – calamity has come my way why haas God left me?

JOB 13

‘Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue drychaff?’

(verses 24 – 25)

Job really thinks that God has turned against him and has marked him out as His enemy.

Often times it can be thought by us as Christians that God has somehow turned on us or abandoned us because of terrible troubles that have come upon us. How that could not be further from the truth, for we know that God is a great and loving Father, and as Paul says in Romans 8.

‘For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ,’

(verses 15-17)

Oh yes we are children of the Most High God and we can cry Dad! Father! And we have the assurance of Hebrews 13:5

‘for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.’

So no God is so not our enemy not at all, he now calls us ‘friends’!

Yes; He is Father, He is still all caring and all covering. And we are given some admonitions in scripture that present us with the fact that it is NOT that we are enemies of God that troubles come upon us.

‘Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.’

(Romans 5:1-5)

‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.’

(1 Peter 1:3-9)

‘Share in suffering asa good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. An athlete is notcrowned unless he competes according to the rules. It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.’

(2 Timothy 2:3-7)

Be encouraged that God is with us and he NEVER has, NEVER will forsake us or abandoning us, sing like the Psalmist, in Psalms 121; ‘lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord,’

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