Seize the Moment – Day 1035

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16
Jan '23

Seize the Moment – Day 1035

Posted on Jan 16, 2023 by Jerry Ingalls in Devotions, General |

16
Jan '23

Finding Hope in your Hopelessness!

Job 7

 

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Monday, January 16.

 

Have you ever been racked with pain? The Rack was an ancient torture device in which a person was attached to a frame then slowly stretched. This idiom means that you are being stretched or burdened beyond your capacity to bear the pain, often leading to feelings of hopelessness.

 

As Job’s response to Eliphaz continued, we learn how the pain and suffering of his disease affected him after a week of being racked with pain. In Job 7:5-7, he described his mysterious disease and the hopelessness it caused him,
 
“My flesh is clothed with worms and a crust of dirt, my skin hardens and runs. My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and come to an end without hope. Remember that my life is but breath; my eye will not again see good.”

 

Have you ever come to the end of your hope?

 

The end of his life dominated Job’s mind, as it does most people when they are racked with pain. In this moment, Job directed his attention to God, as we hear in Job 7:17-18, “What is man that You magnify him, and that You are concerned about him, that You examine him every morning and try him every moment?” In his hopelessness, Job looked to God.

 

Have you ever been in so much pain that you wished death would come swiftly to rescue you from your suffering? Jesus’ nerves were racked in the Garden of Gethsemane, and it caused him to sweat blood in anticipation of His coming death on the Cross. At that moment of grave anxiety, Jesus looked to God in Matthew 26:42,
 
“He went away again a second time and prayed, saying, ‘My Father, if this cannot pass away unless I drink it, Your will be done.’”

 

Seize the moment and find hope in your hopelessness – look to God in your suffering (Psalm 34:18; 147:3).

 

God bless you!

 

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