Reacting badly to situations will only hurt us. The character of Job in the Bible is a great example of how to react when things go terribly wrong. We will all be tested in our lives. How we react to those tests will show the character we have. In many ways like Job, Chris had a life filled with success, intelligence, handsome looks and great friends. Like Job, Chris’s life was then quickly assaulted and devastated on every angle. Chris was losing everything; all of his dreams. Only with a life built on God, did both Chris and Job endure.
We need to have a faith in God that endures through all the bad times, because bad times will come. We need to analyze our lives and make sure our foundation is in the Lord. When (not if) we go through these bad times, we need to know God is enough. Having a temper tantrum or reacting badly will not reflect the character of Christ.
God did not explain the reasons to Job why these bad things happened to him. To my knowledge, God never explained the reasons to Chris why bad things happened to him. Likewise, God never explained to us why this tragedy happened in our lives. Like Job, we need to remember God is all we really ever need. When everything was stripped away after Chris died, we recognized our faith in the Lord was really the only thing we ever had. We cannot get angry and demand God gives us the answers. We have God and that is enough. We do not deserve to know the details of His plans.
“Then Job answered the LORD and said, “I know that You can do all things, And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted. ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ “Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.” ‘Hear, now, and I will speak ; I will ask You, and You instruct me.’ “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You; 6 Therefore I retract, And I repent in dust and ashes.” Job 42: 1-6
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