Do You Know Your Purpose?

 

Today's Verse is Job 3:17

     There the wicked cease from troubling;

      And there the weary be at rest.

    Job has just had everything taken from him including his health, and his viewpoint is dim as his despair has overwhelmed him. Yet, another who is also suffering, I would say, just as much, said this: For in death there is no remembrance of thee: /In the grave who shall give thee thanks? Both men had a relationship with God, but their outlook was completely different, why? With Job, we have no information of what God had called him to do, but with David, we know that God had appointed him to be King of Israel. This appears to be the key difference; one having no purpose to live for longed for the peace of death, the other, not have completed his task sought to be restored, that that which God had called him to do, may still be done. Do you know what God wants you to do? It is not as if he doesn’t want you to know (my experience has been that I did not want to know.) Then once you know, put all your might into doing that which God has directed not forgetting to allow the Holy Ghost to do it through you. So that you can then say with Paul: For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Amen.

To God be the Glory

Scott

Today’s reading is Job 1-3, Psalm 29, Revelation 10

Tomorrow’s reading will be Job 4-7, Psalm 99, Revelation 11