Mon.’s Devo - This Light Affliction

Read Job 30:21-31 Job felt like the Lord was torturing him. God had abandoned him to wait for death. Then Job goes into a pity party reminding God of all the good he had done. He had comforted those who mourned and given to the poor. He looked for the good in everything, but, instead he found evil, and darkness instead of light. Job complains of his physical pain in his stomach and his lack of sleep because of his discomfort. He has lost hope: no sun. His only family and friends are the serpents and the owls,. He is sunburnt and his song has turned to mourning. We have all felt at one time that God was our enemy and nothing good was happening to us. But, maybe like Job, our faith was being tested. People watch how we respond to hard situations and our trials might lead them to their salvation. Jesus death and suffering led to the salvation of all who come to him. 2 Co. 4:17-18 puts it like this: “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. Lord, help us to see into the eternal and not get tripped up by the temporal. May our lives be for your glory.