By Lee Roy Anderson

For I know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God. Whom I shall see for myself and mine eyes shall behold and not another through my reins be consumed within me. Job 19:25-27.

Few of us will experience the abundance Job enjoyed before Satan’s test or the astonishing losses he endured.

Job lost his wealth, his home and his children. He lost the support of his wife, he lost his servants, he lost everything. We have to base our thinking on a smaller scale. How do we bear life’s everyday hardships? How do the tragedies we encounter affect our trust in God? When life gets difficult, what do we do?

Fortunately, we don’t have to lose nearly as much as Job did in order to learn a priceless lesson from Job.

When everything Job might have held onto was removed his hope remained because that hope didn’t rest on his possession, his friends or his family. It rested on God instead. Our faith can rest on nothing less. For Job, hope didn’t depend on getting his possessions and his family back. He didn’t bargain with God. Job did not say, I’ll trust you if you make my life better.

Job’s life is a clear illustration of the trust that Paul expresses nothing will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:39. Our of his dark circumstance Job whispered that he still knew two things; my redeemer lives, Job 19:25 and I shall see God. God was Job’s living redeemer. God gave Job twice as much after as he had before. We need the same redeemer Job knew our redeemer lives with us now. Remember, be obedient in hardship.