Yet I Will

Job 13 houses of the most quoted verses of Job, Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him;

I will surely defend my ways to his face. Indeed, this will turn out for my deliverance,

After all of his so-called friends trying to “encourage” and instruct Job in the “ways” of God as they understood them, Job could have been even more discouraged and hopeless.

However, Job makes a statement that I’ve heard others copy when they are feeling hopeless and about to die.  Their hope is in HIM.

Then Job does a cool thing.  He states that the God he knows is a defender of the weak and a deliverer of those in trouble.  He knows God and his character.  He knows that when life seems like death, there is always hope.

Job finds a way to look ahead to his deliverance – because he knows the deliverer.

Remember those exciting adventure type movies where the characters get stranded on a ship lost out to sea, or on a desert island, and they lose all contact with anyone?  It’s entertaining to watch them try to survive without any knowledge of a rescue in the near future.

However, it’s not entertaining at all to find ourselves removed from everything familiar and destitute without hope.

We are not characters on a TV show, but we are characters in God’s story – we are his family – his sons and daughters – and he will never let us go.  He will come and deliver us from our pain and sorrow.

Indeed He will.