What a day!
How would you respond if everything you possess was taken away at once? Use your imagination on how this happens. People steal your belongs, flood takes your home, your friends are killed by Mother Nature, your cars are stolen and your insurance canceled your policy, and your children are killed by the structural collapse of your home. Moreover, your no payments, no interest loan comes due and your identity has been stolen, your bank accounts bleed and your credit is shot. Oh, and your phone’s battery last long enough for you to get the message from your boss that your fired.
What a day!
Until today you have shared a wonderful life with your wife and children. You ruled the world and now you swipe the streets you once owned. How do you respond? If you’re devoted to God, how would you respond? The question, “WHY” comes naturally? Do you accept you came into the world without and will return the same? God gives, God takes – bless His name!
Everything you hold dear, valuable, and sacred has been taken and all you have left is your loving wife and health – until the first sore. Your whole body covered with terrible ulcers and scabs that itch and oozed. Self mutilation is the only escape from the agony and burning. And your wives not so loving anymore, nor as spiritually devout – she demands you curse God.
Your response to everything, “We take the good days from God – why not also the bad days?” Every act of man, nature, and science has cheated you of life and not once do you sin. Not once do you say a word negative against God. Not once!
What a day!
Personally, it’s hard to think of loosing my daughter, home, possessions, and source of income. Scares me to think my wife could deny me and God when our pain is peaked. I don’t know if I could react as Job (Job 1-2). I hope my life has shown truth and hope in God in times of abandonment – I hope I can do it again.
Take a moment and think about everything you “have” and think about it all being taken away – stop and just think about it for 3 minutes. How did you respond? How will you respond? Now ask yourself why?