Spend time in prayer and silence with God asking Him to meet with you and speak to you.
Bible Reading
After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before.
– Job 42:10
The LORD blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the first. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys. And he also had seven sons and three daughters. The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. Nowhere in the all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years, he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. And so he died old and full of years.
– Job 42:12-17
Devotion
God gives Job a happy ending – making him prosperous again, giving him twice as much as he had before. The ten children he lost are succeeded by ten new children (of course, they could never be replaced) and he lives to see his great-great-grandchildren. While Job was returned to prosperity by God, there certainly is no guarantee that those of us who suffer will receive the same kind of restoration during this life. God chose to do this for Job, but he could have chosen otherwise. God is more interested in our holiness than our happiness and His ways are not our ways. We can trust in Him because He is God, not because he promises earthly happy endings.
The Big Question
How has this study of Job caused you to look at suffering differently than before? How has God responded to your questions about human suffering? What are your three main takeaways from the book of Job?
Conclude your time in prayer and silence reflecting on what you have learned.