Moment

Job 7:17-21 – “What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention, that you examine them every morning and test them every moment? Will you never look away from me, or let me alone even for an instant? If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you? Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.”

Psalm 66:10 – For you, God, tested us; you refined us like silver.

Job 27:2-4 – “As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter, as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils, my lips will not say anything wicked, and my tongue will not utter lies.

Jeremiah 31:34 – No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”

Application:

• ·         From one point of view, times of distress constitute a testing of God’s people as to their trust in and loyalty to God.
• ·         Job’s faith in God continued despite his personal perception of denied justice.
• ·         When the Lord did His new work, there was no longer among His people those who are ignorant of Him and His will for human lives.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV