KEEP TRUSTING
29th Jan 2025
I have just started reading the book of Job in my daily Bible Reading plan. It is not an easy book to read, as Job and his friends discuss his tragic and challenging situation. In Job 1:22 it says, “In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.”
The three friends who are often called “Job’s comforters” try to get him to blame God for his situation and to suggest it was all Job’s fault. But he remains steadfast to his position of faith. In Job 13:15 he says, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust Him.”
Later on there is a powerful declaration, “I know that my redeemer lives and that in the end he will stand upon the earth.” (Job 19:25) Eventually Job’s faith is vindicated, everything is restored. In Job 42:12 it says, “The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the first.”
In Daniel, we read about Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego who faced death for not bowing to a 90 foot statue. As they are standing before Nebuchadnezzar, they state their place of faith. “King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.” (Daniel 3:16-19)
And in the chapter on the heroes of faith, it says in Hebrews 11:13, “All these people were still living be faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance.”
The burden on my heart as I write this message is to encourage you not to abandon your place of faith. Keep trusting God for every situation in your life. We don’t always get the answers we want, but to remain trusting keeps us in relationship with God, who alone has the ability to meet our every need.
Paul’s declaration about his own life was, “I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day.” (2 Timothy 1:12)
Keep trusting, and don’t abandon your place of faith.
by Charles Sibthorpe
