Mon.’s Devo - Job’s Greatest Fear

Read Job 3:1-26 After 7 days of silence, Job breaks it with cursing the day he was born. How do you try to change something that has already happened? He wishes that he had been born dead. Then he would be at rest now. He speaks of kings and counsellors who built coffins to lay their bodies in, and princes who filled their tombs with gold and silver. He would like to be with them where there is rest from troubles. In the place of the dead there are the rich, the wicked, the prisoners, the great and the small - the servant and the master. Job wonders why life was given to the miserable, and bitter which wish they were dead. Why was life given to him, whose ways are hid and whom God has hedged in? Job feels locked in life and no way to escape. Then Job says something very important in verst 25. “For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.” If Job is guilty of one thing it is this. Fear. He feared his children would sin, so he went to their house every time they got together and cleansed them and gave sacrifices on their behalf. All his “deeds” could not save them. He thought that his righteousness would get his children favor with God. This was Job’s one fault: he couldn’t trust God with his family. This was Job’s greatest fear and it came. But, Job is going to find out that God is bigger than his fear. Sometimes God will allow your biggest fear to happen just to show you that you can endure it and God can help you. Our greatest fear should be God. We should fear him enough to trust him for everything. He is a loving God worthy of our lives. Lord, we trust you with our biggest fears. May we fear you above all.