Have you ever had a day when everything goes wrong? I thought I had...until I read Job 1. My "terrible, horrible, no good very bad days" are usually because a list of essentially unimportant tasks didn't get marked off my list. You know, like forgot to pay an overdue bill, didn't plug in crockpot or start the dryer, or kids argued all day long. Sometimes it is just that the last 10 minutes of a beautiful day went badly, and I declare that the whole day was a stink pot. Isn't that silly?!? I allow the enemy to steal my joy, kill my motivation and destroy my day way too often. This morning I read the account of Job's bad day in Job 1. It begins declaring that Job loved God like no other, he kept his house covered in prayer and sought God in all things. The enemy said "well of course Job loves and faithfully serves You, look at his life. He is rich, all that he endeavors to do, is successful, he has a beautiful home and family.... BUT take all that away, and he will no longer be faithful." So, God gives Satan permission (don't miss the fact that as God's child nothing touches you without first being filtered through His love) to take away all Job owned but he could not touch Job. So, that is exactly what he did, and Job's bad day began. He lost all his possessions, cattle, horses, homes, and even all his children! The servant that was delivering the devastating news didn't even finish before the next servant shows up to add to the devastating news. Such unbearable loss.. So much to take in...Too much to comprehended or process! And yet Job's response to this terrible day is a thousand times more shocking! "Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord .” In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong."
Job 1:20-22 ESV. He WORSHIPED!!!!!! He didn't scream and blame God for these awful things, he worshipped! He spoke truth over the flood of feeling he had to have been experiencing. He recognized that every good thing he had was a gift from God, and that he entered the world with nothing and would leave the same way and he worshipped! This is breath takingly beautiful to me. It spurs me in my walk to praise God in all things, and to take back what the enemy has stolen! So day, I am going to make a choice to not let a few bad moments become a bad day and steal my joy, to not let the enemy take what isn't his, and I will worship today, because this I KNOW.....God isn't good even when the day isn't!
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