246. The Lord could bear the world's misery no longer: When the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son.

29 January 2022
The Lord could bear Israel's misery no longer.

Then they got rid of the foreign gods among them and served the Lord. And he could bear Israel’s misery no longer. Judges 10:16

Then Job replied:
“If only my anguish could be weighed
    and all my misery be placed on the scales!
It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas—
    no wonder my words have been impetuous.” Job 6:1-3

Job was a righteous man (Job 1:1), yet he went through grave misery (Job 1:17; 2:7).

“Your hands shaped me and made me.
    Will you now turn and destroy me?
Remember that you molded me like clay.
    Will you now turn me to dust again?
Did you not pour me out like milk
    and curdle me like cheese,
clothe me with skin and flesh
    and knit me together with bones and sinews?
You gave me life and showed me kindness,
    and in your providence watched over my spirit.” Job 10:8-12

Job held on, he had an intercessor who pleaded with God as one pleaded for a friend.

You will call and I will answer you;
    you will long for the creature your hands have made.
Surely then you will count my steps
    but not keep track of my sin.
My offenses will be sealed up in a bag;
    you will cover over my sin.
My intercessor is my friend
    as my eyes pour out tears to God;
on behalf of a man he pleads with God
    as one pleads for a friend. Job 14:15-17: 16:20-21

Job survived such grave misery and the Lord blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first (Job 42:12).



This world of pain and suffering exists because God planned from eternity to permit this so that we could know the fullness of God’s justice and power and wrath and patience, and grace and love which we would not have known without such a world.

This world of pain and suffering exists because the horrors of physical evil and suffering are a parable of moral and spiritual evil — a parable of sin. And we need the parable because we don’t know and feel how ugly and outrageous our sin is.

This world of pain and suffering exists because the suffering and losses of this world show how precious Christ is when God’s people are willing to suffer anything to have Christ.

This world of pain and suffering exists because without such a world Christ could not have died to show us the greatness of the love of God for sinners.

God’s deepest answer to terrorism and calamity and death in this world is that God intended to have a theater for the suffering and death of his Son. He entered into our fallen world of sin and misery and death. He bore in himself the cause of it all — sin. And he bought by his death the cure for it all — forgiveness and everlasting joy in the age to come." From desiringgod website/messages/gods-purposes-in-a-world-of-pain

But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” 
Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. Galatians 4:4-6 NKJV




My flesh and my heart may fail,
    but God is the strength of my heart
    and my portion forever. Psalm 73:26

""I know that my redeemer lives,
    and that in the end he will stand on the earth.
And after my skin has been destroyed,
    yet in my flesh I will see God;
I myself will see him
    with my own eyes—I, and not another.
    How my heart yearns within me!" (Job 19:25-27). Lord, God of Job, I know my Redeemer lives, I cast my cares upon You, in Jesus' name. Amen.

17 March 2018"

May you be blessed with God's Word.

Maraming salamat.

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