WHAT SORROW WILL DO YOU!!! JOB 2:8

“And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself; and he sat [down] among the ashes”

Job was rich, he was an important and a popular person, he eats on high table and I want to believe he sits on high chair too, if there is anything like that. But when sorrow came, he sat among ashes, he was in pain, family and friends pitied him. A woman that should be the one encouraging, turned out to be the one to advise him to curse God, he was in pain and it doesn’t seem like hope is coming anywhere.

Imagine how it looks like to have sore all over your body, from your head to the sole of your feet or what it means to lose all you have in just a day.

Sorrow will bend your head but don’t let it bend your heart. Job didn’t curse God, it wasn’t like he was enjoying the situation, he was angry, he felt bad, the pain was too much for him to bare, to worsen the situation, no one around him seem to be of help, their so called words of advice are hurting. His head was bent but his heart was still erect. He stood on the ground of “God been God”. What a rare man.

How are you handling situations around you?, how easy do you find cursing God? How well do you blame him, what is your response to the foolish advise of men?. It takes a great encounter to experience such and not curse God. Job had so much understanding of God, that cursing God doesn’t seem like an option.

Sorrow shakes everything around you, but don’t let it shake all about you. Pray for an encounter that no matter what may come your way, you will still stand for God. After the night comes the morning, you can’t give up now, you’ve gone too far and the sorrow is temporal, it will leave in no time; don’t be the one to leave.

God is God, He won’t lie and He won’t joke with you. God didn’t joke with Job, he only decided to put satan to shame through a son He trust so well.

Can you help to show God’s enemy and your enemy that your God is mighty to save, by not giving up. There are sorrows and situations, but our God is faithful enough to deliver us from them all.

Lastly, when your head is bent, ensure your heart stands. God bless and cause you to smile in times you suppose to cry.

“Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison that ye may be tried; be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life”.