tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703320929713135568.post3487213784437163046..comments2023-09-30T19:38:26.301-05:00Comments on A Watchman on the Wall.....Armed and Dangerous: alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08925030030295543289noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703320929713135568.post-66146832769638082492014-12-19T22:10:31.135-06:002014-12-19T22:10:31.135-06:00Through it all, I've learned to trust in Jesus...Through it all, I've learned to trust in Jesus, I've learned to trust in God. Our trials only come to make us strong(er).<br /><br />Blessed be the Name of the LORD.alihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07054051343233418255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703320929713135568.post-26056823269908780172014-12-19T20:27:37.863-06:002014-12-19T20:27:37.863-06:00Amen dear sister, amen! Your sufferings are extrem...Amen dear sister, amen! Your sufferings are extremely difficult; we cannot know exactly why things happen as they do. However, we do know God is preparing us for His eternal kingdom, and that preparation comes through the school of suffering in this life. I've often wondered how it is that so many professing Christians have no idea what it's like to go through sufferings, and others seem to have them back to back. <br />I'm amazed at Job's response when his whole world fell apart, 'Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped; <br /> and he said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." <br />Can you even imagine this?!? He lost everything, including his children...and he falls down and worships God! He understood the sovereignty of God, as well as the brevity and unsurety of this life. I think Matthew Henry's commentary is appropriate here, "He adored God in both. When all was gone he fell down and worshipped. Note, Afflictions must not divert us from, but quicken us to, the exercises of religion. Weeping must not hinder sowing, nor hinder worshipping. He eyed not only the hand of God, but the name of God, in his afflictions, and gave glory to that: Blessed be the name of the Lord. He has still the same great and good thoughts of God that ever he had, and is as forward as ever to speak them forth to his praise; he can find in his heart to bless God even when he takes away as well as when he gives. Thus must we sing both of mercy and judgment, Psa_101:1. [1.] He blesses God for what was given, though now it was taken away. When our comforts are removed from us we must thank God that ever we had them and had them so much longer than we deserved. Nay, [2.] He adores God even in taking away, and gives him honour by a willing submission; nay, he gives him thanks for good designed him by his afflictions, for gracious supports under his afflictions, and the believing hopes he had of a happy issue at last.<br />Lastly, Here is the honourable testimony which the Holy Ghost gives to Job's constancy and good conduct under his afflictions. He passed his trials with applause, Job_1:22. In all this Job did not act amiss, for he did not attribute folly to God, nor in the least reflect upon his wisdom in what he had done. Discontent and impatience do in effect charge God with folly. Against the workings of these therefore Job carefully watched; and so must we, acknowledging that as God has done right, but we have done wickedly, so God has done wisely, but we have done foolishly, very foolishly. Those who not only keep their temper under crosses and provocations, but keep up good thoughts of God and sweet communion with him, whether their praise be of men or no, it will be of God, as Job's here was."<br /><br /><br />I will keep you and your family in prayer...<br />lauriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18418345528794992198noreply@blogger.com