Have you ever had a Job? Pronounced "JOBE' phonetically. A Job is when everything in your life is going super-duper and then all of a sudden the wind is knocked out of your sails, the barn is on fire, the ship is sinking, and the pantry is empty. Yup, that's a Job. And if you have never had one then ya always be ready for one just in case you blessed individual.
Let me explain the process of "being Job'ed." This is a traumatic time in which we experience great anguish and tragedy in our lives. Some more than others, but we all at least do experience loss at times. This due to human free-will and the idea that without the lows, how will you know and enjoy the highs. I'd like to also inform that the Book of Job is the oldest written text known to the world and the oldest living legend of a man. Job was rich beyond belief and a pretty nice guy too. However sad to say, the nasty Lord of Light aka Lucifer decided Job's happiness ruined his eternal fall from grace period. Lucifer proclaimed Job might not be so chipper and cool with the Creator if allowed to make times very tough in the not so distant future. Satan might even get Job to curse God.
So the drama begins when Lucifer goes to God and asks if he is allowed to bring tragedy upon tragedy in succession upon Job, maintaining Job surely will curse his maker eventually. However, every time Lucifer was dead wrong. Job holds his shit together and makes it 'til he has nothing else in life except the ratty clothes on his back. He lost his wives, children, homes, livelihood, and he even was afflicted with boils just for extra measure. But that didn't get Job to curse or blaspheme the Almighty. No. So if Job can go through all that we endure daily, surely we must know we are capable as well.
Now there is a turn to the darker side about halfway into this tale. The final notch Lucifer thought up was the wickedest and the one that became Job's breaking point. Any guesses? Well, what good is a so-called friend that kicks ya down when you're already in the canyon. Yup, three of Job's closest neighbors and associates decided to let Job know God must be upset with him for all the mess heaped on him lately was a sign. And instead of giving Job some supper and a couch they told him it best they all steer clear as to not let Job's persecution rub off on them too. What some freakin' friends are they?! We all know 'em and got 'em sad to say.
Like a hammer, it was in that moment those twisted comments by Job's associates went deep into Job's psyche and caused him a moment of doubt and maybe even a slight depressive state. So Job simply asked, "God, why?" Well, the answer God gives is basically four chapters of "Who are you's." that make even the modest of skeptics and scientists consider the idea that there really is an Almighty Creator. Some of the stuff in Job tells of the earth's gravity, the foundations of earth, the snow capped Himalaya's, and so on. All this written well before any scientific or historical records had been begun to be kept. But I digress and that is not why I write this today.
Today is the day to get a Job. Not because of the story ends fantastic with Job being restored with all he had lost by seven times, but in the making of that newer you. Its in this experience of loss we are tested and tried and like clay in the furnace, we end as a glossed, hard vessel ready to take in what the world serves up. So don't be in despair when Book of Job comes a callin.' Be grateful and don't ask God "why me?' but instead say "thanks for the chance to be a better person and rise up. And please, help me through it Man."
**NOTE** Thanks for taking the time to read my new blog. It is now international, Welcome readers from USA, AK, Poland, and Sweden. God Bless.
GC4JC ~ GBF
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