Job

I'm going through Job right now, and to get a better grasp on it, I am listening to David Platt's Why? The Gospel and Suffering. I am just in awe of Job 1:20-21:

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.

It is such a beautiful testimony having lost ten children, and being in such sorrow, and falling to the ground in worship of our sovereign, good, holy God. I don't know how I would react. I don't know that I would respond with the grace and obedience Job did. I know Christ is, and will be my comfort and strength when I go through suffering, but falling to the ground in broken worship is on a whole different level. Being able to see the sovereignty of Christ, and knowing he is deserving of praise even in our darkest hour is something that I want to learn and apply from reading Job.

I love how God ties everything together when you are in His Word. I am reading Job, and Jon brought this very verse up tonight at church. He mirrored this verse with Luke 14:26

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.”

The love that we have for God should be so great that our earthy love looks like hate. Job had this relationship with God. He knew the worth of his Savior. The Lord was everything to him, and it was demonstrated through his act of worshiping God, and blessing His name in the midst of tragedy.

This verse always makes me think of the song "Blessed be Your Name"