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Trusting in Tribulations
Introduction
The Word of God states that rain falls on both the just and the unjust (Matthew 5:45).
In our heads we know this to be true and normal.
In our hearts may be a different expectation.
We tend to think that if we are doing what is right, everything will go right, or at least should go right.
Although this thought is certainly appealing, it is not a Bible truth.
Because of our false expectations, we sometimes question God unjustly.
God does not promise things will always go well, but He does promise His unfailing grace through the trials.
Alfred Edersheim wrote: "We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them.
To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience."
In all of Scripture, there is no one who was more tested and tried than Job.
J. Sitlow Baxter said, "The theme of [Job] is blessing through suffering."
James 5:11 b (KJV 1900)
“...Ye have heard of the patience of Job...”
Without a doubt, there is much we can learn from the life of this great man.
Testimony
One man said "One ought to live his life in such a way that the pastor can tell the truth at the funeral."
Another said, ('Live your life in such a way that your family would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."
A.W. Tozer said that we may be known by the following: "1) What we want most.
2) What we think about most.
3) How we use our money.
4) What we do with our leisure time.
5) The company we enjoy.
6) Who and what we admire.
7) What we laugh at."
In Job chapter 1, we see what God said about Job.
PERFECT AND UPRIGHT
"perfect" and "upright" are synonymous in this passage.
Job was literally living a life that was based on upright decisions—decisions that were not simply upright before the world, but were upright before God.
Henry Heinz, born in 1844, to German immigrants in Pittsburg, PA, helped support his family as a teenager by growing and selling vegetables in the family garden.
After graduating from college and getting married, he started a business selling horse radish.
In 1875, a national financial collapse drove the young company into bankruptcy.
Despite the legal freedom bankruptcy gave him, Heinz regarded each of the company’s outstanding debts as a moral obligation and personally paid back every penny.
Heinz went on to found the H.J. Heinz Company with its 57 varieties and became a leading American businessman.
A devout Christian, he was known for the generous treatment of his employees and his generosity to Christian causes.
Throughout his life Heinz conducted his business and personal dealings with the same integrity that led him to pay back hundreds of thousands of thousands of dollars he technically did not owe.
He began his will with these words: “I desire to set forth at the very beginning of this will as the most important item in it a confession of my faith in Jesus Christ as my Saviour.”
We talked about this before but be young people of integrity.
Not just before man, but with God.
Job was a man who did right.
The most powerful thing about the recording of Job's life of righteousness was that this testimony was given him by God Himself.
FEARED GOD
Throughout the Scriptures, the concept of fearing God deals with respecting God and His position.
Job certainly had a holy respect for God.
He understood and clearly stated throughout this book that God was the creator of the universe, that He had all power and that God could be trusted.
God wants His creation to fear Him and to respect Him for who He is and for what He can do.
Job did this, and God was pleased.
ESCHEWED EVIL
Finally, the Lord tells us that Job was a man who hated evil.
God's plan for the believer is to love righteousness and flee from evil.
The world wants us to toy with evil and to laugh at evil, but God wants us to hate it.
(Asa’s interaction with the people while passing out tracts ).
God tells us that although we are in the world, we are not to be of the world.
Trials
Trials reveal the depth of a person's character and love.
The story of the Willis family is a beautiful illustration of a family coming through the most extraordinary of trials yet finding peace and sufficiency in God.
Pastor Duane Scott Willis and his wife Janet dearly loved the nine children God had given them.
But at mid-morning on November 8, 1994, a fiery auto explosion on 1-94 in Milwaukee claimed the lives of their six youngest.
Within hours, the freak accident had made national and international headlines.
From behind guarded hospital doors came good news concerning Scott and Janet: their physical recovery from first and second degree burns would be complete.
However, the most astonishing recovery became apparent as Scott and Janet displayed their emotional and spiritual stability.
Milwaukee, the nation, and even the world looked on in amazement as eight days later the bereaved couple explained to the media how they could make it through such a sudden and horrific tragedy.
The following statements are from that news conference.
Our God—Our Praise
"Psalm 34 says, 'I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
O taste and see that the LORD is good.'
Janet and I want to praise and thank God.
There is no question in our minds that God is good, and we praise Him in all things.
God is a great God."
Our Trial—The Accident
"As far as the accident is concerned, I was looking at the road and was alert.
Our little baby was behind us; Ben was behind us on the other side.
In the back were the other four children; they were all buckled in.
I saw the object (a metal brace, 6"x 30", 30 lbs.).
I thought it was one of those blocks that maybe came off a flatbed truck.
The car in front of me swerved, and I knew I couldn't miss hitting the object.
I thought if I took it on the tire I might roll the car.
It was a split-second decision.
"When we hit the object, the rear gas tank exploded, taking the car out of control.
I was able to grip the wheel and take the car out of the slide.
When we were sliding and the flames were coming around the seat, it was a shock—a surprise—like, (What is this?' It was just roaring flames coming up on both sides.
I was yelling to get out of the car.
Janet and I had to consciously put our hands into the flames to unbuckle the seat belts and reach for the door handles.
"Janet fell out the door while the car was still moving.
Benny was in the midst of the burning; his clothes were mostly burned off by the time he got out.
The five youngest children, who had been asleep, died instantly.
No sound was heard by Janet or me as we struggled to get out of the van.
An unknown man took his shirt off his back to soak Benny's wounds, and another beat out the burning clothes on Janet's back.
Benny died in intensive care around midnight."
Our Children—Our Pain
"We believe children are a heritage of the Lord.
We thank God for six precious children: four rascally boys, a sweet girl, so much like her mother, and a little baby just beginning to smile and grow.
We understood that they were given of the Lord, and we understood they weren't ours.
They were His, and we were stewards of those children.
And so God took them back.
He is the Giver and Taker of life.
We must tell you that we hurt and sorrow as parents would for their children.
The depth of pain is indescribable.
The Bible expresses our feelings that we sorrow, but not as those without hope."
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