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Day 3 – Fear Job 3 What makes you afraid? What is the one thing you fear most? We are all afraid of something, we might not voice it, but it lurks there in the recesses of our mind and shadows our thoughts and actions. Job voiced his fear, and as he did so he cursed the day he was born. He didn’t even want the day recognized among the rest of the days of the year. He wanted no recognition or rejoicing for the day of his birth. He said that what he feared most happened. Job’s fear then was that trouble would come so bad that he would be as he was, sitting among the ashes for some kind of relief from all the pain in his body. Job did not curse God or anyone or anything else. He only wished he had never been born so he would not know the pain he was in. Are we any different than Job? When things go wrong don’t we look around for something to blame? I’ve heard people voice that they wished they had never been born, as well as blaming everyone and everything else for their trouble. Job didn’t look at anyone or anything else other than himself when it came to putting the blame somewhere. In voicing his fears he released all the pent-up emotions that ate at him from the beginning of his trouble when the first person came and told him someone had killed the servants and made off with his livestock to the last when he was told his children were dead. What is your life like? What crises have you faced? What were your fears? Did you voice them? Who did you blame for all your trouble? As Christians we too face situations that will try our faith. Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience; 4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 5 And hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. (KJV) Christians have hope that one day their trials and tribulations will cease. Jesus told His disciples they would endure tribulation in this life. John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. (KJV) There is our hope. Jesus overcame the world. When He went to the cross He defeated Satan. When He rose from the dead He defeated death. When He ascended into heaven, He showed us we will be with Him again where He is and He told us He’s coming back. What do we have to fear in the face of all Jesus did for us? Yet we do fear. We are afraid because our enemy, Satan, seeks to destroy us every day of our lives. Satan had gone to God for permission to destroy Job, but God denied him that satisfaction. He could only try him, and test him to show him where his true faith lay and in doing so, Job would show Satan his faith was in God not his fears. When we voice our fears we take control over them. We do not allow them to rule our lives. Job voiced his fears to cast them under his feet and not allow them to have victory over him. What are your fears? Voice them and do not allow them to control you, but you control them. Let’s pray: Father, thank you for giving me Jesus to show me I have nothing to fear in this life because He overcame the world taking all my fears on Himself when He went to the cross and rose for my salvation. Help me to look fear in the face and take control over it. In Jesus’ name, I pray, amen. Copyright © 21 February 2016 by Valerie Jean Routhieaux All scripture is King James Version, edited by me into common English. Image courtesy of Pixabay