What is required of us believers in the Lord today to overcome the devil and be victorious, is a life of unwavering faith, unwavering faithfulness, unwavering zeal for God and His Word. Our battlefield is the sanctification process the Holy Spirit leads us to. The flesh and the soul fight the spirit constantly for predominance. Since we are prone to fall into sin, they almost always win. However, perseverance and endurance of faith in submission to the Holy Spirit’s sanctification will free us from the power of sin. Job, human as the rest of us, was above the circumstances he had to face. Never went under them, while suffering pains day after day. Added to his pains, his friends fought against him with hurtful words, piercing his soul, as they accused him of wrong-doing. Words come to us as music to the ears, but many times as a sword that penetrates our inner being, causing great psychologic trauma. Many have committed suicide as a result, for this kind of pain lasts a life time with consequences, shaping the way we think. Job, however, learned to forgive them and God rewarded him with healing and greater riches than before.
“In a web article titled “Wife of Job: Apocrypha” by Hananel Mack, the author summarizes an apocryphal story from the Septuagint. The story holds that Job’s first wife died and that the children of his life’s epilogue came from a second wife, whom he married after his trials ended. In this story, Job marries Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, which joins him to the house of Israel. This would mean that Job lived between Abraham and Moses.”
Our trials today, if we do not faint before them, will bring us a recompense that is eternal in a bright future. Paul said, “I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth being compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and for us and conferred on us” (Rom. 8:18). So, I resound the Prophet Isaiah’s words: “Arise and shine, for your light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you” (Isaiah 60:1). Light and Glory have to do with the Lord. The Light and Glory of the Lord is YAHSHUA the Son of God, victoriously marching to reward those who endured the test of time. Life is filled with hope in the presence of faith. Job could feel hope in his suffering in spite of losing the sight of it at times. But secured by faith, hope remained with him to the end of his trials. Our hope is based on God’s promises that He will be with us to the end of time. Job did not have this written promise to go by, yet, he knew God in a way we do not know Him. For the substance of our faith is YAHSHUA, the Son of God, crucified and resurrected, preparing a place for us in heaven.
My friend, what is the substance of your faith? Is there a beautiful future waiting for you on the other side, when you leave this earth? Is your hope only in this temporal life? God offers you much better place where neither moth nor rust nor worm consume and destroy, and where thieves do not break through and steal (Matt.6:20). Where your future is secure in His presence.
YAHSHUA said, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father but by Me” (John 14:6). Here you have it: the spoken eternal words of YAHSHUA resounding throughout eternity. Hear Him and follow the sound of His promises echoing salvation to whomsoever will.
Light from the Word 