Job Effect

The Job Effect

My favorite Bible character after Jesus  should be Job, Boy was he not just the most trusting person in the world?
How does one loose so much in one day and still be sane and still trust God. Job has 42 chapters and he was tortured in 37chapters with no reply from God, God was silent through jobs suffering.
I can bet that if half of jobs misfortunes happened to me right now I will completely run mad,
But let's focus on the job Effect
He practiced the "being thankful in every circumstance" verse (2thess.5:18),
He practiced the " I alone know the plans for you" verse (Jer.29:11) ,

Job was struck down by a life threatening Illness, abandoned by his friends, lost his entire family and even the few remaining ones ran away from him, his businesses collapsed and he degenerated from the rich guy everyone knew to a poor sick man with no penny to his name but  he didn't stop trusting or believing God.
37 out of 42 chapters were filled with Job's turmoil, he listened to his friends talk endlessly about his condition, he finally broke down recounting his good deeds, reminding God he didn't deserve all he was going through and yes he kinda went overboard with his rants but c'mon Job was human there was a limit to which he could hold it in, he had to explode but  take note never did he loose his faith and trust in God, he just needed God to stop being silent and speak. He understood God's omnipresent nature and his vast knowledge of him and all he was  going through, he was only bothered why He sat still and said nothing to him.
Sometimes God is silent in our struggles, because he want to see you express yourself as his child, he wants you to man up or should I say "Job Up" without loosing trust in him, approach the throne of grace Boldly (Hebrew. 4:16).
The Job effect is the most difficult thing to ask from anyone but this is the kind of trust God wants from us, -  The type that doesn't depend on the good circumstances alone but also exists in the worst living conditions.
-  The type that you stand by the word of God even when the society expects you to be a different kind of way.
-  The kind that stands up to God reminding of his promises to you.
-  The kind that doesn't loose joy when surrounded with the turmoil of life.
And of course Job experienced the "better is the end of a thing than its beginning" verse (Ecclesiastics.7:8)

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of a greater or equal benefit.”
– Napoleon Hill