Job 1:1-5
Job's Daily Routine
1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. 2 He had seven sons and three daughters, 3 and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.
4 His sons used to hold feasts in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5 When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom.
Job 3:11-26
Job Questions God
11 “Why did I not perish at birth,
and die as I came from the womb?
12 Why were there knees to receive me
and breasts that I might be nursed?
13 For now I would be lying down in peace;
I would be asleep and at rest
14 with kings and rulers of the earth,
who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,
15 with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver.
16 Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child,
like an infant who never saw the light of day?
17 There the wicked cease from turmoil,
and there the weary are at rest.
18 Captives also enjoy their ease;
they no longer hear the slave driver’s shout.
19 The small and the great are there,
and the slaves are freed from their owners.
20 “Why is light given to those in misery,
and life to the bitter of soul,
21 to those who long for death that does not come,
who search for it more than for hidden treasure,
22 who are filled with gladness
and rejoice when they reach the grave?
23 Why is life given to a man
whose way is hidden,
whom God has hedged in?
24 For sighing has become my daily food;
my groans pour out like water.
25 What I feared has come upon me;
what I dreaded has happened to me.
26 I have no peace, no quietness;
I have no rest, but only turmoil.”
Matthew 6:9-15
Our Daily Bread
9 “This, then, is how you should pray:
“‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.’
14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
Matthew 6:25-34
Do Not Worry
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Acts 17:24-28
God is Near Us
24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. 26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
Acts 42:7
Job Has Spoken the Truth about God
7 After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.
Jesus teaches us to trust God...And Jesus don't just want us trusting Him in the morning, but we are to trust Him every hour of everyday...But sometimes I find that difficult...He teaches us in His Prayer, that we are to pray to Him for our daily bread...And then He teaches us not to worry about our life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, or what you will wear...He asks us, "Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?"...If we believe Jesus when He says, does God not care for the grass of the field and the flowers growing in the fields...If God cares for these things, He certainly cares for us, and He knows when we need the things we need...He knows when we need Him, too...
Job, we are told had his regular custom, his daily routine...Most of have a daily routine of things we do each day...And after we have done this routine, our regular custom for some time -we do not like it interrupted...We are not told much of what happened throughout out the day when Job was feeling good and in his regular custom...It seems that his life was good...And like Job, when we are taken out of our regular custom by a worry, an anxiety, or pain and suffering, it seems that we have this tendency to question God...It seems we question Him much less on those days we are in our regular custom...And much more when we need Him...
We try to hold on to our faith, that we are not alone, but sometimes that gets difficult...Job's faith held through his suffering, but He looked around for God through his questions...Job endured his suffering with his questions of His Father...And through all the questioning and things Job said to His LORD, God says Job spoken the Truth about Him...God did not mind the way Job was questioning Him...In fact, He seems to get rewarded for it, while his friends are reprimanded...
We are His offspring, we are children of God...God is not far from any one of us...For in Him, we live, we move, and have our being...God gives us what we need...He also allows things to happen in our lives, like He did Job...Even when we are alone, or suffering, and with anxiety -He is near...Jesus is sitting right beside us with our worries, our pain, and our anxieties...And it seems harder to believe this when we are worrying, suffering, and have these times of anxiety...We question our harder times...We have this tendency during these times to forget that God is near, and that He is aware of these things and the things we want and we need...