Rejoice in Your Redemption

“And as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will take His stand on the earth. Even after my skin is destroyed, yet from my flesh I shall see God.” Job 19:25-26

If not read in faith, the book of Job reads about as enjoyable as the front page of a newspaper...'depressing.'

Job’s wife came to him after all his friends had deserted him to say, “Why don’t you curse God and die?” And she was supposed to be his helpmate? Yet Job, in the face of all his trials, said, “I know that my Redeemer lives.” He had only the promise of the coming Messiah. But you know Jesus Christ. How much easier to trust in One whom you can know intimately.

“For God, who said, ‘Light shall shine out of darkness,’ is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassing greatness of the power may be of God and not from ourselves.”
2 Cor. 4:6-7

God knows we are weak. It is His plan to shine through us, weak as we might be. The apostles suffered beyond what most of us have ever experienced. Yet their confidence in their Redeemer grew. Here is Paul’s statement of faith: “...we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.” 2 Cor. 4:8-10

What do you face? Boredom, rejection, physical illness? Rejoice in your Redeemer. Allow the light of His glory to shine through you.