JOB not job like the one I have at HCO

OK so last night I was reading the book of Job...I've always been fascinated with his testimony and to know that he never cursed God but rather praised Him in the midst of all his turmoil...and I've recently found myself praying that God would break me down and test me so that I may withstand all the trials and tribulations that are yet to come...and quite honestly I didn't think that it was possible to praise God in the midst of all lives turmoils and to continue to thank Him for what is yet to come. In Job 2:10 He tells his wife..."shall we not indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?", that verse in itself was an eye opener I noticed how willing we are to accept the blessings of God but when it comes to His chastening we quickly want to say no or why me? as I continued to read Job I stumbled across this other verse Job 5:17 "Behold happy is the man whom God corrects: Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty" and of course it's way easier said than done to "accept God's chastening" but when you stop and think about it those who correct you, do not correct you to call you out, they only correct you because they are aware of the potential that you obtain and that's exactly what God sees when He brings our sins to the light. I just think that God is so amazing in how he reveals such precious gems of wisdom to us through reading His word...and knowing that there is so much more to be learned through His word only makes me long for It even more so than before.

It's ironic how I grew up in the Church and went to private school and never truly took advantage of God's word only because I knew that It was always going to be there...I knew that whatever class room I walked into there was going to be some verse from the Bible and that there were going to be banners hanging all around me with scripture on it...but now that I'm not surrounded by God's word so much as I was before, I find myself looking and longing for It...I know I went off on a different tangent but I was thinking about that last night... I asked God why is that we live in a free country where we can read His word without having to worry about being persecuted for it...and yet we do absolutely nothing about it? All different types of people save up their lives earnings just to come live over here where they can worship our God in freedom? Do we have to suffer such an extreme such as communism to truly appreciate God's word? I feel that now more than ever we need to draw close to God and hide His word in our heart because there will come a day when we will not have such an easy access to the Bible or to Church or to anything really that pertains to Jesus Christ...in Revelations the Bible talks about a time when God will remove Himself from us...and knowing that that time may be at hand I feel that we should hide His word and etch it upon our hearts...that way when the hard times start rolling in like the waves onto the shore, we would have some source of comfort... "I pledge allegiance to the Bible God's Holy word. I will make it a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. I will hide God's word in my heart that I might not sin against God" - AMEN
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