[CottShop]

[[Job was healed by the grace of God because God wanted to heal him. There is nothing we can do, and that is what Job learned through his trials. ]]

Bingo! and again, it;’s important ot realize God may or may not heal us, and that His decision is not based on what we do, but on His Soverieng right as God alone to deal with His creation as He sees fit. In the end, Job didn’t know God was goign to restore Him, so that wasn’t Job’s motivation for repentance- Job repented because He loved God, and because it was the right ting to do regardless of the circumstances he faced

I write this as someoen who suffers and unfortunately wallows in ‘why me’ most of hte time- I do try not to- but find myself crying out ‘why God?” al lthe time- then I resign myself to hte fact that nothign is goign to change, and ‘just accept it’- (but I never truly do accept it- I just ‘give up whining for a time I guess), and I write this to remind me that I’m WAY off trtack in my htinking- Thanks for your insight and responses to put the perspective back where it belongs- I lose track of thigns because I get consumed by the personal experience of suffering, and everythign becoems about me, and I lose the love for fellow man because all I can focuss on is the pain and cry out’ ‘Why God?”

[OneVike]

Thanks for your insight and responses to put the perspective back where it belongs

I have been married to a woman who was put in a wheel chair from a car accident we were in a month after we started dating back in 1987(we were passengers in the back seat).

I have seen her struggle and suffer for more than she deserves. Well my perspective is that anyway, but reality is we all deserve what we get, and when we are not getting our just due, we are blessed. You are correct, God did not have to heal Job, or else he would have healed the elephant man. There was a man who loved God, but his ultimate healing came upon his death, like all of our suffering will.

We look at this world as if it is something great to hold onto because it is the only thing we know. Eyes have not seen, and ears have not heard of what the Lord has in store for us when this life is over. I think of a child, and how they cannot fathom adulthood, so they want everything now. They cannot even imagine waiting two weeks for a birthday or Christmas.

Well, we are God's children, and we too cannot imagine waiting 80 years to get to Christmas. We tell little Johnny that just because Paul's Mommy and Daddy let him have an i-pod does not mean he deserves one. We think that our worth is in this world, but we cannot bring it with, we leave all for our children and they to theirs. One for one, and dust to dust, In Gods due time, and at His pleasure we shall have what he wants us to have and when he wants us to have it.

If that means we must suffer a lifetime debilitating disease until we dies unknown and unloved by this world, well then so be it. That too is more than we deserve. When man realize that, then they will truly see the joy that Christ offers and the burden of worry will be lifted and we will be taken care of like the wildflowers of the field and the birds of the air.