Turmoil

Job 3:16-23 – Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day? There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest. Captives also enjoy their ease; they no longer hear the slave driver’s shout. The small and the great are there, and the slaves are freed from their owners. “Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter of soul, to those who long for death that does not come, who search for it more than for hidden treasure, who are filled with gladness and rejoice when they reach the grave? Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

Ecclesiastes 4:2 – And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive.

Jeremiah 13:16 – Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings the darkness, before your feet stumble on the darkening hills. You hope for light, but he will turn it to utter darkness and change it to deep gloom.

Job 19:5-6 – If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me, then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.

Application:

• ·         Faith sees a bigger picture.
• ·         God, who had put a hedge of protection around Job, has now, Job feels, hemmed him in with turmoil.
• ·         Job, struggling with the enigma of his suffering, concludes that God is his enemy, though in fact He is his friend who delights in him.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV