Serve God in Your Disappointments

Scripture: Job 2 : 1-13, 42 : 5

       What do you do when you have lost everything, when friends have turned their backs on you, and all hell has broken loose; you serve God in your disappointments. This sounds tough, especially when you don’t understand everything that is happening around you. The first impression in your mind is that you have the right to be angry and bitter. You think that you have done nothing wrong, and you can’t understand why these things are happening to you. Some people are even tempted to stop trusting God seeing that he has allowed these things to happen and not do anything about them.

       Job’s wife must have felt that way when she saw all the calamities that have happened in their lives. She told Job to curse God and die, but Job had a different mind-set. He understood that everything that he had was given to him by God and realized that God himself had the power to take them away, and if that was the case, he had no control over his circumstances. Job, however, choose to worship God despite his disappointments.

         Job’s loyalty helps us to understand that we don’t serve God because of what he can give us but we serve him for who he is. Job was very rich, moreover, for a rich man to lose all his assets it was a big thing for him, let alone have his children killed. Job’s wife didn’t understand the true essence of loyalty and there are some people who think like her. There are people who think that God is a genie in a bottle; they just rub it and make their wishes come through. They never took the time to know and understand the essence of the supreme being that brought salvation and eternal life to mankind.

         We should adopt the qualities of Job and get to know God. It was through those trying times that he actually got the chance to know who God really was.  Job 42:5 stated that Job said to God that he had heard of him, but through those trying times, he got the chance know him for himself. Similarly, some Christians have heard about Christ and even purport to now him, but they don’t know him personally because they have never made an effort to seek and connect with him. In times of trouble take the time to seek God, worship him, and trust him. The Lord will take pleasure in your loyalty to him.