A Living Testimony
In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing. (Job 1:22)
When Job faced all of the intense hardship of the first part of his life, he never complained, nor did he allow his situation to affect his behavior. If only we so easily followed Job’s example. Unfortunately for many people, something goes wrong and they go to the bar and drink their life away. They end up throwing their life away on some addiction, allowing disappointments to justify bad behavior. But Job didn’t do that, because he understood that God wanted to use his life and the way he handled his situation as a witness to others.
If you continue reading the book of Job, you’ll discover that there were people around him who were observing what he was going through, but they reached the wrong conclusions. His wife told him to just curse God and die. His three friends Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar told him that his circumstances must be the result of some sin he had committed. But God used Job to show them then, and to show us now, that our trials are part of our testimony.
What we go through in life constitutes the elements of our witness. There are people looking at us and what we’re going through, and they’re asking themselves, “How in the world can she still sing after all she’s going through?” or “How in the world can he still have joy after everything that’s happened?” When people see how you handle your season of difficulty, it is a witness of God’s goodness, a statement of God’s glory, and a sign of God’s power.
How we respond to trials is oftentimes more important than us actually getting through the trials. So, let us be mindful that the way we live our lives through the difficult times gives us the opportunity to be a light to others and point others to Jesus. We are a living testimony.
When Job faced all of the intense hardship of the first part of his life, he never complained, nor did he allow his situation to affect his behavior. If only we so easily followed Job’s example. Unfortunately for many people, something goes wrong and they go to the bar and drink their life away. They end up throwing their life away on some addiction, allowing disappointments to justify bad behavior. But Job didn’t do that, because he understood that God wanted to use his life and the way he handled his situation as a witness to others.
If you continue reading the book of Job, you’ll discover that there were people around him who were observing what he was going through, but they reached the wrong conclusions. His wife told him to just curse God and die. His three friends Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar told him that his circumstances must be the result of some sin he had committed. But God used Job to show them then, and to show us now, that our trials are part of our testimony.
What we go through in life constitutes the elements of our witness. There are people looking at us and what we’re going through, and they’re asking themselves, “How in the world can she still sing after all she’s going through?” or “How in the world can he still have joy after everything that’s happened?” When people see how you handle your season of difficulty, it is a witness of God’s goodness, a statement of God’s glory, and a sign of God’s power.
How we respond to trials is oftentimes more important than us actually getting through the trials. So, let us be mindful that the way we live our lives through the difficult times gives us the opportunity to be a light to others and point others to Jesus. We are a living testimony.
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