Bedside Watchman THE ATTITUDE OF JOB

Last Updated on : October 11, 2014

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December 10th -- Job 12
THE ATTITUDE OF JOB

WE are the products of an alien world, only living through God's long-suffering, and if, by adoption, we become children, and are subjected to chastisement, it is only through God withholding for a while some of His good gifts. A fair consideration of the elementary truths we have learned will bring us to the attitude of Job. "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be his name." The chastening is grievous, we are made sorrowful by it; but our apprehension of the truth should make us "sorry after a godly manner." The trouble with the grumblers is that they accept all blessings as a matter of course, and comparing the best they can imagine of life with the limitations of their experience, think that they have in some way been wronged. Whatever happens, they have no ground for complaint, unless it was wronging them to give them a personality at all.

ISLIP COLLYER, Conviction and Conduct,

pages 126-127