LESSONS FROM JOB #17 – THE GREAT QUESTION
"If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, till my change comes." (Job 14:14)
This is one of the great questions of life. Is there anything beyond what I am suffering? Is there any hope that this pain will pass, and I experience the good life again? From the human perspective, maybe yes and maybe no. In the middle of my suffering, I often feel that things will never change. Many troubles come, and they go. The pain heals and we get on with life. Job's saga shows that there can be life after suffering. However, some things will be with us until we die. There is no cure for rheumatoid arthritis, and people who have it will suffer throughout their lives. Jesus proved by His resurrection that there is life in the future. In His resurrected body, pain and suffering were gone. We shall live again because He rose from the grave to eternal life. If a man dies, he shall live again. That is the hope we live in – that in heaven there is no suffering, no pain, no tears, no night. Until then, I will wait "until my change comes" – when this mortal puts on immortality, when this body that is sown in corruption is raised in incorruption (I Corinthians 15:53 and 42). Without this hope, life is pitiable – miserable (I Corinthians 15:19). All we can do is endure the pain. Our real hope is that because He lives, we shall live also (John 14:19). That faith will take us through the suffering of this world. "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us" (Romans 8:18). Now that will be living!!!!
Love, Dad
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