Job 3

Why is life given to those with no future, those God has surrounded with difficulties? I cannot eat for sighing; my groans pour out like water. What I always feared has happened to me. What I dreaded has come true. I have no peace, no quietness. I have no rest; only trouble comes."

(Job 3:23-26)

After a week of sitting in silence with his buddies, Job finally opens his mouth to speak. In a very poetic and dramatic way, he basically says he wishes he were never born, and sort of begins to question God as to why He would let him live, seeing as his life seemed to have NO PURPOSE. The last thing Job has to say is what is quoted above. He asks a question, “Why is life given to those who have no future?”

From Job’s limited perspective, HE HAD NO FUTURE, as far as he could tell he was a man that God had surrounded with difficulties, and he wished he was dead. Imagine what it must have been like to be in Job’s shoes… you had a killer life, and in an instant everything you loved was taken away. Then, you were attacked by this wretched disease that covered your body in painful boils. I can see how he felt useless, and like his life lacked any real purpose.

We got to see the secret of what is going on behind the scenes in the 1^st 2 chapters. God is doing a great work through these circumstances… Though Job may be surrounded by difficulties THE LORD IS WITH HIM. What Job doesn’t know at this point is that God has a GREAT FUTURE for him… He has plans Job knows nothing about.

There are no mistakes with God. Everything He does has a purpose, and nothing happens without a reason. Sometimes you might feel like you are a waste of space, like your life is meaningless. God never feels this way. A life full of meaning and purpose waits for all who will trust themselves fully into the hands of God.