Job 13:15 KJV
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Two things Job clung to in this verse:
First, that He would trust the Lord. Let God do what He would to Job's body and circumstances; he would continue his trust in God.
Sometimes we just do not know why things happen to us as they do. But if God is our standard of right, then it will always do right to trust Him.
Secondly, that he would maintain his walk with God.
This is not a statement of rebellion against the Lord but one of assurance. He knew that he had been walking with the Lord and his insistence was that he would continue to do so. He would not turn as his wife had urged him to. He would not collapse and change his faith, as his friends suggested he ought to. They were sure that Job's afflictions were caused by the fact that he must not be right with God somewhere. Job knew better. He was not like the wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. He was like the piling, driven deep into the sea bed so that, though the violent waves beat against him, he did not budge.
May God give me some of that same steadfastness.
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Two things Job clung to in this verse:
First, that He would trust the Lord. Let God do what He would to Job's body and circumstances; he would continue his trust in God.
Sometimes we just do not know why things happen to us as they do. But if God is our standard of right, then it will always do right to trust Him.
Secondly, that he would maintain his walk with God.
This is not a statement of rebellion against the Lord but one of assurance. He knew that he had been walking with the Lord and his insistence was that he would continue to do so. He would not turn as his wife had urged him to. He would not collapse and change his faith, as his friends suggested he ought to. They were sure that Job's afflictions were caused by the fact that he must not be right with God somewhere. Job knew better. He was not like the wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. He was like the piling, driven deep into the sea bed so that, though the violent waves beat against him, he did not budge.
May God give me some of that same steadfastness.
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