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A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold is as pictures of silver.(Prov.25:11) It is so important to speak the right words to people at the right time to produce the right results. When you think of apples of gold in pictures of silver, then you are thinking of wealth and excellence. When we speak wisdom into the lives of others we are making them wealthy. Therefore we must seek God for He is the source of all wisdom and He will give us just the right words needed at the right time.
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#Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? Behold, thou hast instructed many and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. Thy words have upholden him that was falling and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. But now it has come upon thee and thou faintest; it toucheth thee and thou art troubled. Job 4:1-5
Eliphaz is the first of the friends to speak to Job and wonders if he will be grieved if they commune with him. Then he questions who can withhold himself from speaking? The Bible says to be quick to hear, slow to speak and how it would have been better if he had stayed quiet. Then he says you strengthened those that were feeble in knees and weak in hands. Now it has come upon thee and thou faintest it toucheth thee and thou art troubled. We are soon to judge a teacher when he is down, but Eliphaz does not know God has allowed Satan to trouble Job. There is an end to all trouble and Job is being patient as he waits on God for his deliverance. We too must be patient as we wait on God. Those that wait on the Lord, shall renew their strength, they shall run and not be weary, walk and not faint. Wait I say on the Lord and be of good courage.
#Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery and life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not and digs for it more than hidden treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly and are glad, when they find the grave? Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden and whom God hath hedged in? For my sighing cometh before I eat and my roarings are poured out like waters. For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me and that which I was afraid of has come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet, yet trouble came. Job 3:20-26
Job all his life feared to lose his children, his wealth, and then his health. So he has these two great questions about light which is given to him in misery and life unto the bitter in soul? We know that light is synonymous with life, for the Bible tells us that God is light and no darkness is in him. Yet Job is bitter in his soul because of all his misery because he wishes for death more than those that dig for hidden treasures. For they rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave? For to live is Christ and to die is gain. Then why is light given to a man whose way is hidden and whom God hath hedged in? Job did not know how God used the hedge to protect him from the attacks of Satan and now he is hedged in by the same hedge of protection. It was God who told Satan all that he has is in thy hand, only do not take his life. The answer to those questions is found in the Holy Ghost, but Job does not have the indwelling of the Holy Ghost as we do today, but we know that God who began a good work in us will finish it at the appearing of Christ Jesus. So we who suffer today can look back at Job and his suffering and say as Paul said that I reckon the suffering of this present day is not worthy of the glory that shall come at the appearing of Christ Jesus. Job has not lost his faith in God, for he knows that all the days of his appointed time that his change will come and he is going to wait upon God. What a valuable lesson to us today as we suffer through the pandemic of the coronavirus. Thank God that trouble has an end game and it will be the glorious appearance of Christ Jesus for us.
#For now, should I have lain still and been quiet I should have slept: then had I been at rest, With kings and counselors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. There the wicked ceases from troubling and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there and the servant is free from his master. Job 3:13-19
Job wishes he had been a stillborn infant as his misery is great and then he thinks of princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver. It is amazing how we dream when we are in the midst of trials and tribulations as Job is, yet he imagines if he could be as the prisoners that rest together, free from the voice of their oppressors. We can find ourselves thinking the same thoughts in this pandemic that is going on around the world, but God is in control despite how bad it seems. God will save us and take us to a place where the wicked can trouble us no more. Heaven will be so wonderful as we will sing the praises of our wonderful Savior how he delivered us from the perilous days on earth. So rejoice for weeping maybe for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
#After this opened Job his mouth and cursed his day. And Job spake and said, Let the day perish wherein I was born and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. Job 3:1-5
Job is on his worst day and as the deacon, Coleman said he had the pitiful mouth. We can sympathize with him for he is in such agony and his wife has just told him to curse God and die. So he curses the day that he was born. How many of us have wished the same thing when things did not go our way in life. We must look up to God and do what King David did and encouraged himself in the Lord. Job has gone from being the richest man in the east to being the poorest man and now he needs a job. Wait I say on the Lord is what we have to do for trouble will not last always. It is easy for us to feel sorry for ourselves when life throws us a curveball. I pray for all the doctors and nurses on the frontlines fighting the pandemic of the coronavirus that they can be of sound mind and spirit as they treat the many patients in their care. A righteous man looks to the end of a trial for God has promised never to give us more than we can bear.
#Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great. Job 2:10-13
The Bible says that faithful are the wounds of a friend, but deceitful are the kisses of an enemy. These three friends of Job started out doing the right things for him as they mourned with him seven days and seven nights. This was noble for when we a silent and present our comfort is great and that is what these friends did. They were very faithful to come to Job at his greatest time of need, after having lost his children, wealth, and now health he needed comforting. If only they had just left after the seven days, then that would have been great, but their comfort would lead them to make some serious allegations against Job. These would prove to be deceitful kisses, that Job would learn to forgive.
#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. And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal and he sat down among the ashes. Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God and die. But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. Job 2:7-10
Satan designed just the trial to get Job to suffer, with boils from the sole of his feet to the crown of his head. So you wonder why he did not take his wife? Satan wanted her to be an obstacle for Job, as she questions Job do you still maintain thine integrity? Then Job says thou speaks as one of those foolish women does. Shall we not accept good from the hand of Jehovah and adversity also? In all this Job did not sin with his lips. God said Job was a perfect man, and he was so he demonstrated his maturity by accepting the adversity as coming from the Lord when we knew it was the devil that hath gained permission to strike his flesh. What a man of God Job was, for he did what no other man would do by not blaming God for his trouble. We can learn a lot from this example for we too are tempted to complain and blame God for our trouble in this world. Jesus said in the world we will have tribulation, but be of good cheer for I have overcome the world.
#And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. So Jonah arose and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. And Jonah began to enter into the city in a day's journey and he cried and said, Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh and he arose from his throne and laid his robe from him and covered him with sackcloth and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water: Jonah 3:1-7
The people of Nineveh repented at the preaching of Jonah and one greater than Jonah said if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto me. Jesus was lifted up from the Cross, he bleeds and water comes out, He cried out it is finished, gave up the ghost. He was buried and three days later He rose again. He is seated at the right hand of the Father in Heaven interceding for you and for me. Turn to Jesus now. The epidemiologist is saying we need to wash our hands and Jesus is saying we need to wash our hearts in His blood, be baptized in the water and we will be saved from the wrath to come. What a blessing for what can wash away my sins? Nothing but the Blood of Jesus. Salvation is a free gift, but you have to receive it to be saved. Just as the Ninevites believed God and turned from their evil ways. A hundred and twenty thousand souls were saved. We need a worldwide revival to save us from this pandemic that is sweeping across the world. Turn to Jesus and we shall be saved from this affliction. Call a fast every one; David said I thought on my ways and turned my feet unto thy statutes.
#Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD. And the LORD said unto Satan, from whence comes thou? And Satan answered the LORD and said, From going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it. And the LORD said unto Satan, hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, one that fears God, and escheweth evil? and still, he holds fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him to destroy him without cause. And Satan answered the LORD and said skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. But put forth thine hand now and touch his bone and his flesh and he will curse thee to thy face. And the LORD said unto Satan, behold, he is in thine hand, but save his life. Job 2:1-6
Satan is at it again accusing Job, as Jehovah compliments Job for holding fast to his integrity. God listens as Satan says skin for skin, yea all that a man hath will he give for his life. But put forth thine hand now and touch his bone and his flesh and he will curse thee to thy face. So Jehovah God said behold he is in thine hand but save his life. We see there are limits for Satan to attack us, as God said to save his life and Satan is limited to pain and suffering. All the suffering in this world is caused by Satan, but God gives us the grace to bear it. Many people are suffering from the coronavirus and losing their lives, but there is the promise to the child of God that if this body that we live in is dissolved, we have a house from God not built with hands dwelling for us in the heavens awaiting us. So we are absent from the body but present with the Lord which is far more glorious. Thank God that suffering will not last forever, for Satan will be cast into the Lake of Fire, where he will be tormented forever, and God will create a new heaven and earth that we can enjoy in our glorified bodies forever. So hold on to your integrity as Job did and said all the days of my appointed time I am going to wait until my change comes.
#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. Then Job arose and rent his mantle and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground and worshipped, and said Naked came I out of my mother's womb and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. Job 1:13-22
Job has been hit with a massive Satanic attack and lost all of his wealth and his children. He has torn his clothes off, shaved his head, then fell to the ground to worship God. He proclaims Naked came I from my mother's womb and naked shall I return there: Jehovah gave and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah. In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God foolishly. We can learn a lot from this response of Job to adversity and do the same as we suffer through the worse crash of the stock market since the financial crisis of 2008. God must be praised for protecting us in this crisis and we pray for all our neighbors who are suffering, as well as losing jobs to the coronavirus spreading around the whole world. We will make it through this crisis by the grace of God. Be considered of older Americans who are isolating in nursing homes and do not violate the Government orders to not gather in more than groups of 10.
#Hast, not thou made a hedge about him and about his house and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now and touch all that he hath and he will curse thee to thy face. And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD. Job 1:10-12
What do we do when we are on cloud nine and have all the blessings in the world of family, faith, and riches? We thank God for all these things for they can be taken away from us in a moment. Job is about to experience it, but the one thing he will hold on to is his faith in God. Jesus told Peter that Satan had demanded permission to sift him like wheat, but I have prayed for thee that thy faith fails not, then when you are converted, strengthen your brethren. God has to remove the hedge around us for Satan to get at us. Satan has power, but he is not omnipotent as God is. So we thank God for protecting us in the fiery trials of life and know that he only wants to refine us as gold is refined in the fire. Only the dross of our lives is removed and we come out more perfect than we were before the trial. Many people are in the trial of their lives and we must take the same attitude that Job took by saying God knows the way that I shall take, then when I am finished I shall be as pure gold.
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