May 11 & 12 When God Shows Up

You can’t alter your life, but you can take it to the altar.

1. He was never the same.

¹Then Job replied to the Lord: ²I know that you can do anything and no plan of yours can be thwarted.
Job 42:1-2 (CSB)

³You asked, “Who is this who conceals my counsel with ignorance?” Surely I spoke about things I did not understand, things too wondrous for me to know.
Job 42:3 (CSB)

⁸“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways.” This is the Lord’s declaration. ⁹“For as heaven is higher than earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8-9 (CSB)

²⁵For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has happened to me.
Job 3:25 (CSB)

⁵I had heard reports about you, but now my eyes have seen you.
Job 42:5 (CSB)

⁶Therefore, I reject my words and am sorry for them; I am dust and ashes.^,
Job 42:6 (CSB)

2. He found freedom from past hurts.

⁷After the Lord had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.
Job 42:7 (CSB)

⁹Then Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.
Job 42:9 (CSB)

¹⁰After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and doubled his previous possessions.
Job 42:10 (CSB)

¹¹All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances came to him and dined with him in his house. They sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity the Lord had brought on him. Each one gave him a piece of silver^, and a gold earring.
Job 42:11 (CSB)

¹³He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me. ¹⁴My relatives stop coming by, and my close friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:13-14 (CSB)

3. He found restoration in his future.

¹Then Job replied to the Lord: ²I know that you can do anything and no plan of yours can be thwarted. ³You asked, “Who is this who conceals my counsel with ignorance?”  Surely I spoke about things I did not understand, things too wondrous for me to know.
Job 42:1-3 (CSB)

¹⁶Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. ¹⁷Then Job died, old and full of days.
Job 42:16 (CSB)

⁹ “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. ¹⁰Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. ¹¹Give us this day our daily bread, ¹²and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. ¹³And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Matthew 6:9-13 (ESV)