Thursday... I still have this consolation...

Thursday... No matter what I am going through, I still have this consolation...

Job in the OT of the Bible had lost everything. He didn't know what had happened. And he was ready to die. But he said in verse 10 of chapter 6 (NIV), "I would still have this consolation-my joy in unrelenting pain-that I had not denied the words of the Holy One."

No matter what he was going through, no matter what unrelating pain we may be going through, what our nation is going through, there is still a joy in it if we search for it. But we live too much understandingly in the pain.

Is that where you are today? Is your pain about to get you down, it seems like your world is falling a part? If that is you then look for that spark of joy that is there. It may be really hard to see, but it is still there.

The NIRV puts it this way, "Then I'd still have one thing to comfort me... That would give me joy in spite of my pain that never ends."

Even in our darkness God gives us a spark, He gives us that one thing. But we live in the darkness without looking for the spark.

In all that Job was going through he knew one thing, he found joy in that one thing, he found hope in that one thing, "I haven't said no to the Holy One's commands." He still had that connection with God. He didn't understand what was happening but He knew that He hadn't blown it with God. Even though his friends had come to the conclusion that he must have sinned, he must have done something that severed his access to God but he found a spark of joy in knowing that he had not blown it with God and because of that He knew that God was working in his behalf.

So how is your relationship with God? In your unrelenting pain do you know that you haven't blown it with God so you know that He is working through your pain? Do you still have a clear access to Him through His Word and through prayer? There is joy in that, isn't there?

But then some of you maybe see that you have done something to sever that relationship with God or you never have had a relationship with God but there is a spark of joy that comes to you when you see that you still can come to Him and renew or start the relationship with Him. There is that spark of joy in your darkness.

Yes. No matter what I am going through, I still have this consolation, I still have this hope, I still have this joy! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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