Job sinned not

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”In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.” (Job 1:22)

If we can endure our trials and challenges without committing a  sin, then we can proclaim victory. What a blessing it is to be able to “bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;” (Matthew 5:44)

Oh, how we honor God when after someone has struck us on the right cheek, we turn to them the other, choosing not to respond, choosing not to resist. (Matthew 5:39)

We have learned that a “soft answer does turn away wrath.” (Proverbs 15:1) and that it is possible to “repay evil with blessing.” (1 Peter 3:9)

“Satan did not care what Job suffered, so long as he could but hope to make him sin; and he was foiled when he did not sin. He must have regretted that he tried him, when he found that he could not make him sin…If in enduring your particular trouble, my dear friend, you do not fall into sin, you are more than a conqueror over him that hateth you. The arch-enemy will fly away confounded from you, if you are able to resist him while darkness covers your soul. If you conquer him in your hour of grief, you conquer indeed. Charles Spurgeon

If we can do good when things are going well, so much more is the triumph when we can do so when our lives seem to be falling apart. 

GiGi❤️

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