WE SHOULD LEARN FROM JOB
We
want to live forever, won’t we? It is our instinct to find cure to our
sickness, and do not welcome the effects of old age-wrinkled skin, poor
eyesight, loss of hearing, and unsteady legs. For instance a friend of mine a
young man, a professional, has a steady job, have a dream to become a successful
professor or director someday got sick,
not a simple sickness but a malignant tumor into his most delicate part of his
body his brain. He had no vices as far as I know and a clean life is his
concerned, so these leads to question its integrity toward the government,
environment, himself and sadly toward our Creator. How can a young man like him,
having a clean living and have faith toward God acquire a sickness that can
lead to severe suffering financially, physically and spiritually. Financially drain
because he is just new in his job and his earnings in giving a hundred thousand
pesos every session for chemotherapy or radiotherapy is quite exhausting he
needs the support of other institution to supplement the medical session. It is
also physically exhausting since his body is becoming weak, his eyes are
affected, becoming dry and his speech is mumbling. However, his faith toward
God is the only strength that he had, his speech in every occasion is catered
toward our Creator, so other may wonder why Him why not them. From his
experience leads me to think and remember the experience of Job during the
bible times.
Job, a loyal man whom
Jehovah loved, he also have a good life as a family man. However his integrity
is also being questioned because of the keen instigator against our Creator no other
than Satan the Devil. Satan questioned Job’s integrity, saying that he served
God only for selfish reasons. God, with confidence in Job and knowing His own
power to undo harm, allowed Satan to test Job. Satan then “struck Job with a
malignant boil from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.” Job’s flesh
became covered with maggots, and his skin formed crusts, blackened, and dropped
off. Can you imagine his agony? Yet, Job remained faithful, saying: “Until Iexpire I shall not take away my integrity from myself!”—Job 27:5. Job, however,
did make a serious mistake l. As he seemingly inched closer to death, he became
overly concerned with vindicating himself, “declaring his own soul righteous
rather than God.” God’s spokesman Elihu reproved Job. But Elihu also conveyed
to Job a positive message from God: “Let him [Job] off from going down into the
pit [the common grave]! I have found a ransom! Let his flesh become fresher
than in youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor.” (Job 33:24, 25)
Those words must have filled Job with hope. He did not have to continue
suffering right down to his death. If Job would repent, God would be pleased to
accept a ransom in his behalf and set him free from his calamities. Job humbly
accepted correction, and he repented. Jehovah evidently accepted a ransom in
Job’s behalf, allowing it to cover his error and open the way for God to
restore and reward him. Jehovah “blessed the end of Job afterward more than his
beginning.” Imagine Job’s relief when, among other blessings, his loathsome
disease cleared up and his flesh, in effect, became “fresher than in youth”!
Job’s experience is also related to my friend
and to me as well. As we experience tragedy and persecution even though we say that
our Faith would not be withered, and sometimes our grip toward him loosen but
hopefully would not break. We have a greater and wonderful future ahead Job acceptance
have a limited value, for the man remained imperfect and later died. We have a
much better ransom available to us. God lovingly gave his Son, Jesus, as a
ransom for us. All who put faith in that ransom have the prospect of living
forever on a paradise earth. In that coming new world, God will release
faithful humans from the aging process, sickness. ALL WE NEED IS TO TRUST HIM
WHATEVER HAPPENS
other details were copied from JW library
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