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How would you feel if you had a double promotion, either in school or at work? How would you feel if your car was upgraded to a model far ahead of the one you are using at the moment, Or if you changed status from Leggedis Benz to Mercedes Benz, all at the cost of mercy?

 I know what I'm sure going to do-- act startled and then  laugh. The kind of laugh that will switch from amazement to excitement and to everything a laugh can be..

 

This was the case for Job in the Bible, when God decided to turn his predicament around for good. He had been the wealthiest man of the east as seen in Job.1 :

"And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east."

Job 1:2-‬3 KJV

But as God would have it, he was under a trial that costed him all of his wealth and health.

"And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: and there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: and the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee."

Job 1:13-‬19 KJV

 

So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

Job 2:7 KJV

But something interesting transpired, that caused things to turn around for Job, and this is the point of writing today.

 

∆ God got into a conversation with Job and his friends and teased out the fact that while Job had spoken of God the things that are right inspire of his loss and sore state, his friends had spoken I'll of God.

 

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job. So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job. And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Job 42:7-‬10 KJV

It was his resolve of God that moved God to insist on his friends offering a sacrifice during which Job was to pray.

While so much emphasis have been made in years past on how God turned Jobs case around because he prayed for his friends, it is important to note that it was the mindset he maintained about God that brought out God's instructions to his friends.

 

So the question here is: what is your resolve of God concerning the situation (s) that bothers you? Do you have Him in the whole picture or you're carrying the burden all by yourself? Have you settled in your heart the right ideology of God as far as that situation is concerned, or you're just passive or maybe even doubting about his involvement in the case? What will your resolution of God be in the middle of a storm?

 


Prayer: Dear God, help me to uphold the right mindset about You in this season, and always in Jesus name, Amen!!!

 

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