Taking the Land | Sermon Podcast

Even in the depths of despair, hope is still possible. I think about Job. Perhaps no greater example of someone who lost it all, right? The kind of experience that you would not wish on your worst enemy. He loses his family, his children. He loses his business. He loses all of his property. And then the devil comes and takes away his bodily health from him. So he's sitting, the Bible says, sitting on the ground, scraping the boils off of his skin, painful boils. And then if that wasn't bad enough, his wife comes to him and says, why don't you curse God and die, you miserable worm? I added that last part. And when it seems like he's got nothing left, but the Bible does call Job a righteous man. God defended Job in the chapter one. Problem was, Job wasn't there to hear it. And neither are we. We're not there to hear the ways that God is going to help us. But listen to Job as he hangs on to that last thread of hope in Job 13, 15. He says, though he slay me, speaking about God, even though he slay me, yet will I trust him.