GOD'S CONFIDENCE IN YOU

 

Job 1:20-22  Job stood up and tore his robe in grief.  Then he shaved his head and fell to the ground before God.  He said, “I came naked from my mother’s womb, and I will be stripped of everything when I die.  The LORD gave me everything I had, and the LORD has taken it away.  Praise the name of the LORD!”

Job had lost everything he had gained in this life.  The only thing he had left was his life, wife and integrity of heart.  His wealth was gone, his children were killed, his health was ruined and he was left in a state of utter misery.  Job had done nothing to warrant any of his problems.  God gave Satan permission to harass him.  God knew Job’s heart and trusted in his integrity.  God believed that Job would not turn on Him, no matter how bad things seemed to get.

Let us pause for a moment and think about this.  What kind of confidence does the Lord have in you?  He knows your heart.  He knows your strengths and weaknesses.  He knows if you are strong enough in your faith to withstand whatever comes your way and still remain strong in Him.  Can you be trusted to never compromise the integrity of your heart before Him?  Or, in other words, does your faith have strings attached?  Faith that really helps you is a faith that is not dependent on circumstances.  It is a faith that is rooted in and dependent on the character of God.  It is a faith that never wavers regardless of the happenings of life.

Like Job, we must understand that life is not about its pleasures or conveniences.  Life is far more than what we have, what we do, or who we know.  Life is not measured by who is in it.  Life is relational, about our faith in God.  Nothing else in life matters.  If we are not in a living relationship with God, we have no life.  Everything that life offers is delusional if we have not Christ.  No amount of earthly gain will give us one ounce of heaven’s soil.

We came into this world with absolutely nothing and we will leave it the same way.  It is all futile and means nothing if we don’t have Christ.  Keep your priorities straight; keep Christ always number one in your heart and in your living.