Devotional : Praise in the Darkness
Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the
ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away;
blessed be the name of the Lord.” In all this Job did not sin or charge
God with wrong.
Job is perhaps the greatest biblical example of endurance in
hardship. Despite being a blameless and upright man, in just one day he
experienced the death of his children and the loss of nearly all his
possessions. Yet one of his first reactions was to acknowledge God’s
sovereignty both in plenty and in poverty, in bringing joyful
circumstances and in bringing grievous ones. As chaos, disappointment,
and pain descended upon him, he shaved his head, put on his torn robe,
and fell to the ground, not only in anguish but also in worship.
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