This week the Sunday School reading assignment is about Job. Isn't he impressive? In Job chapter 1 we read of the literal collapse of Job's world--his children have been killed and his possessions are gone. And what do we read that Job does upon hearing of this news?
Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
Later when Job is covered from head to toe in boils, his wife asks, "Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?
I think this statement from the Bible Dictionary is interesting,
The human mind is such that it is essential for Job to have a correct knowledge of God and know that his own course of life was acceptable to God, or he would not have been able to endure the trials that came upon him.
So, Job must have had a correct knowledge of God and he must have known that his own course of life was acceptable to God, for he endured the trials that came upon him.
I can only hope that if or when my world collapses, I will fall down and worship God and keep my integrity.
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