"I Can See"

We have spent the last several Sundays in the book of Job. It’s a book that is full of pain, sadness and questioning. We celebrate this Sunday as we see hope in the passage. Job can see clearly now. He can see that God was with him and loved him through all the pain and suffering he went through. Job repents and restoration occurs in his spiritual life. Not only is Job’s relationship with God restored but he also receives his fortunes back twofold.
Job reminds me of an old house being restored on the TLC tv channel. It keeps its history and even has some places with scars and stories. The old house gets some love, care, and improvements. Job says he is finally able to see and restoration begins in his life. May we see and be restored this week as well. May we see our need to repent, may we see God is with us and loving us, and we have hope in Jesus. May we be like Job and not forget our pain and suffering but may we grow from it. Job does not forget about his pain or the loved ones he lost. I bet he thought about it every day. Job, however, learns he was loved in the good and tough times.

Job Is Humbled and Satisfied
42 Then Job answered the Lord:
2 “I know that you can do all things,
and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
4 ‘Hear, and I will speak;
I will question you, and you declare to me.’
5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
but now my eye sees you;
6 therefore I despise myself,
and repent in dust and ashes.”

Job 42:10-17
New Revised Standard Version
Job’s Fortunes Are Restored Twofold
10 And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends; and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then there came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money[a] and a gold ring. 12 The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys. 13 He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 He named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. 15 In all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters; and their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers. 16 After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children, and his children’s children, four generations. 17 And Job died, old and full of days.

Pastor Andy