This is Too Much for One Day

There are 7 days in a week.

30 Days in a month

91 Days in a quarter

182 days in a half year

and 365 days in a year.

Can I be honest with you all and let you know, of all of these days, there is a bad day in there some where.

Your family is tripping- a bad day

Marriage on the rocks- a bad day

Hit your toe at the edge of the bed- a bad day

Get stopped by the police- a bad day.

Bad days, are unavoidable.

You can to get away from it.

you can not pay to get out of it.

if you are living this life. You will encounter some bad days.

There will be times in your life. Where so much is going on, that you will say, this is too much, for one day.

Too much bad news for one day

Too many arguments for one day

To many hiccups for one day

and the truth us, though bad days are unavoidable, Bad days are also are achievable

Though you can not avoid the experience of a bad day, you can overcome the problems of what that day may bring.

Because its not how you experience bad days that make you stronger, it’s how you respond to bad days that make you stronger.

and it is in this text, that we will see, how Job responded to a bad. day.

Last week,

Pastor taught us why bad things happen to Good people.

But this week,

I want to explore, how good people respond to bad things.

so we find ourselves back in the land of Uz. and we have an opportunity to peak into the life of a man who has to go through a rough period of time .

Job a blameless man, a righteous man, a great man, is about to go through a hard ship.

How did Job get here?

1. Unwarranted Recommendation (v. 6-12)

Job got to this point as a result of an unwarranted recommendation.

An unwarranted recommendation.

He did not ask for this recommendation.

He does not plead with God for a chance to show God how much he loves him.

Job gets to this point as a result of a recommendation that he did not ask for.

and this was not a recommendation for a house. This is not a recommendation for a job. This is not a recommendation for a blessing.

But this is a recommendation for suffering.

As God is in a board meeting with the angels, the devil stops by and peaks his head in.

God asks the devil what he is doing, and the devil says that he is looking to seek who he can devour.

God then asks an unusual question, “Have you considered my servant Job?”

Job, an upright man

Job, a righteous man

Job, a man of prestige and power

Job, a man who makes God look good.

and Job is now a man, who has a first class ticket to tragedy.

This is an unwarranted recommendation.

Of all of my years of reading and preaching this,

I would always see Job as an unlucky servant. I would always see Job, as the man that God had to test.

Until I realized.

That God did not recommends Job to test his Loyalty.

God recommends Job to display his loyalty.

God did not do this to see what Job would do.

God did this to show the devil what Job would do.

A blameless man. An upright man. a man with great morales and values have been put to the test, to display his affinity for God.

So the question is, Can God trust you to put his name on you?

What happens if your name is inserted for Job?

Would you make God look bad?

This unwarranted recommendation shows what God really thinks of Job.

He chooses Job to recommend because his name is on the line. and Job will not make him look bad.

and How many times can we say that God’s recommendation was ruined because of our actions?

Not only was there an Unwarranted recommendation

There was also a series of

2. Unfortunate Events (13-19)

Satan questions Job’s loyalty.

Satan says that Jobs loyalty is reliant on Job’s life circumstances,

so He says. “If you allow me to take it away, then Job will curse you to your face.”

God then says, “You can touch everything around him, but you can’t touch him.”

God gives satan a Limited power.

Satan does not have the power, to touch Job. This is a limited power.

Satan could only do so much.

He can touch you money, but he can’t touch your family.

He can touch your family, but he can’t touch your body.

He can touch your body, but he can’t take your life.

Satan can only do so much because satan only has so much access.

But when our affinity to God is circumstances, you allow life’s circumstances to detour you from what God is trying to do for you.

Satan touched him, but he could only do so much.

Job, is minding his own business and satan comes with the problems.

Job loses his oxen.

Job loses his Sheep and servants

Job loses his camels

and then Job loses his Children

Satan wasted no time and took it all.

One day, Job was on top of the world,

The next day, the world was on top of him.

One day Job had all he wanted,

The next day, Job had nothing

One day, Job had riches

The next day, Job had Lost it all

This is a series of unfortunate events.

He has taken his source of status and income.

Then he takes his seed.

This is too much for One day.

and how many of you have had a Job day?

Where there’s Problem after Problem.

Disappointment after disappointment.

Marriage problems, your children are acting up, your supervisor has gone crazy

I can only imagine the level of emotions that job is feeling right now.

He is helpless,

He is hopeless

He is childless

he is broke

He is broken

He is grieving

He is embarrasses

and all of this happens, IN ONE DAY.

This is a series of unfortunate events. We can tell by the frequency of events that satan wasted no time to shake Job’s life. And he does it all, in one day.

If I can just get through the day.

Too many arguments for one day

Too many problems for one day

Too many pains for one day

Too many deaths in one day

Too much hurt in one day.

and Job has to find a way, to overcome this one day.

But job does something strange.

He gives God

3. Unusual RESPONDS

I’ve been waiting all day to get to this point.

The Bible says that Job tore his robe and shaved his head and fell to the ground and worshiped God.

He tore his robe, Shaved his head, Fell to the ground, and worshiped God.

Job tore his robe and shaved his head- to fully appreciate the depth of this passage you have to understand what he was doing.

Back in that time, whenever one tore their robe, it was a sign of mourning and grief.

In Genesis 37, when Jacob thought that Joseph was dead, He tore his clothes.

In 2 Samuel 1:11 when Saul and Jonathan passed, David and his men tore their clothes.

So this was not unusual. It was a time to mourn.

but then it says, that Job fell to the ground and worshiped God.

A. HE RESPONDS WITH WORSHIP

In the midst of Grief. In the midst of sadness at the moment Job has nothing, but he fell to the ground and worshiped.

In spite of losing his money.

Inspite of losing his children, He fell to the ground and worshiped.

Job tearing his clothes was a Human move.

but Job falling and worshipping in the midst of grief, was a christian move.

Job tearing his clothes was usual.

but Job worshipping in the midst of sadness was unusual.

Mind you, Job has said nothing at this point. His first response to the problems he faced was worship.

and I want to tell you that It is our duty to worship our God even when things aren’t going OUR WAY.

Job’s life of worship had nothing to do with stuff.

HE IS STILL GOD.

THE WONDERFUL ONE.

THE MIGHTY ONE

THE PRINCE OF PEACE,

HE’S STILL GOD.

9 Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness; tremble before him, all the earth.

8 Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.'"

Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness.

DISPITE WHAT WE GO THROUGH, IT IS OUR DUTY TO WORSHIP GOD.

HE RESPONDS WITH WORSHIP

BUT THEN HE RESPONDS WITH WISDOM.

HE SAYS “Naked I came from my mother’s womb and naked I shall return, The lord Gives and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord”

The wisdom was Job realizing that All that he lost was not his to begin with. It’s the Lord’s to give and it was the Lords to take.

he responds with worship and wisdom

but then he responds with

Blessed.

this bless in the hebrew means Barak. That means God be praised. However the use of this hebrew word-phrase has the same connotation of another phrase and that phrase is,

EVERYTHING IS JUST FINE.

im hurting but EVERYTHING IS JUST FINE.

im crying but everything is just fine.

and the bible says, that job did not sin at all.