test of faith .....

test of faith ….
Test Of Faith
last wednesday anthony dwight peji tan passed away …. a cute six year old boy whose so kulet but loved by so many …. he’s apple son …. a dear friend … last friday i came to visit dwight indeed to bid my last goodbye …. there i saw apple , i saw how she cried a lot of times everytime she mentioned dwight , her ordeal , her reactions , how she questioned god , and most of all i saw her in her darkest day how she let go of dwight and accept her fate …. how she trust god to take good care of her little dwight …. yes it is painful to someone to lost the people whom they really love and treasure …. and this is the story of faith …. i copied this blog from apple …. and here it is ….

aT some
time in those early days—we do not know just at what time, whether in the days
of Moses or later—there was living a good man named Job. His home was in the

land

of

Uz

,
which may have been on the edge of the desert, east of the

land

of

Israel

.
Job was a very rich man. He had sheep, and camels, and oxen, and asses, counted
by the thousand. In all the east there was no other man so rich as Job.







And Job was a good man.
He served the Lord God, and prayed to God every day, with an offering upon
God’s altar, as men worshipped in those times. He tried to live as God wished
him to live, and was always kind and gentle. Every day, when his sons were out
in the field, or were having a feast together in the house of any of them, Job
went out to his altar, and offered a burnt-offering for each one of his sons
and his daughters, and prayed to God for them; for he said:

“It may be that my
sons have sinned or have turned away from God in their hearts; and I will pray
God to forgive them.”

At one time, when the
angels of God stood before the Lord, Satan the Evil One came also, and stood
among them, as though he were one of God’s angels. The Lord God saw Satan, and
said to [181] him, “Satan, from what place have you come?” “I
have come,” answered Satan, “from going up and down in the earth and
looking at the people upon it.”

Then the Lord said to
Satan, “Have you looked at my servant Job? And have you seen that there is
not another man like him in the earth, a good and a perfect man, one who fears
God and does nothing evil?” Then Satan said to the Lord: “Does Job
fear God for nothing? Hast thou not made a wall around him, and around his
house, and around everything that he has? Thou hast given a blessing upon his
work, and has made him rich. But if thou wilt stretch forth thy hand, and take
away from him all that he has, then he will turn away from thee and will curse
thee to thy face.”

Then the Lord said to
the Evil One, “Satan, all that Job has is in your power; you can do to his
sons, and his flocks, and his cattle, whatever you wish; only lay not your hand
upon the man himself.”

Then Satan went forth
from the Lord; and soon trouble began to come upon Job. One day, when all his
sons and daughters were eating and drinking together in their oldest brother’s
house, a man came running to Job, and said:

“The oxen were
plowing, and the asses were feeding beside them, when the wild men from the
desert came upon them, and drove them all away; and the men who were working
with the oxen [182] and caring for the asses have all been killed; and I am the
only one who has fled away alive!”

While this man was
speaking, another man came rushing in; and he said:

“The lightning
from the clouds has fallen on all the sheep, and on the men who were tending
them; and I am the only one who has come away alive!”

Before this man had
ended, another came in; and he said:

“The enemies from

Then at the same time,
one more man came in, and said to Job:

“Your sons and
your daughters were eating and drinking together in their oldest brother’s
house, when a sudden and terrible wind from the desert struck the house, and it
fell upon them. All your sons and your daughters are dead, and I alone have
lived to tell you of it.”

Thus in one day, all
that Job had—his flocks, and his cattle, and his sons and his daughters—all
were taken away; and Job, from being rich, was suddenly made poor. Then Job
fell down upon his face before the Lord, and he said:

“With nothing I
came into the world, and with nothing I shall leave it. The Lord gave, and the
Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

So even when all was
taken from him Job did not turn away from God, nor did he find fault with God’s
doings.

And again the angels of
God were before the Lord, and Satan, who had done all this harm to Job, was
among them. The Lord said to Satan, “Have you looked at my servant Job?
There is no other man in the world as good as he; a perfect man, one that fears
God and does no wrong act. Do you see how he holds fast to his goodness, even
after I have let you do him so great harm?” Then Satan answered the Lord,
“All that a man has he will give for his life. But if thou wilt put thy
hand upon and touch his bone and his flesh, he will turn from thee, and will
curse thee to thy face.”

And the Lord said to
Satan, “I will give Job into your hand; do to him whatever you please;
only spare his life.”

[183] Then Satan went
out and struck Job, and caused dreadful boils to come upon him, over all his
body, from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. And Job sat down in
the ashes in great pain; but he would not speak one word against God. His wife
said to him, “What is the use of trying to serve God? You may as well
curse God, and die!”

But Job said to her,
“You speak as one of the foolish women. What? shall we take good things
from the Lord? and shall we not take evil things also?” So Job would not
speak against God. Then three friends of Job came to see him, and to try to
comfort him in his sorrow and pain. Their names were Eliphaz, and Bildad, and
Zophar. They sat down with Job, and wept, and spoke to him. But their words
were not words of comfort. They believed that all these great troubles had come
upon Job to punish him for [184] some great sin, and they tried to persuade Job
to tell what evil things he had done, to make God so angry with him.











For in those times most
people believed that trouble, and sickness, and the loss of friends, and the
loss of what they had owned, came to men because God was angry with them on
account of their sins. These men thought that Job must have been very wicked
because they saw such evils coming upon him. They made long speeches to Job,
urging him to confess his wickedness.

Job said that he had
done no wrong, that he had tried to do right; and he did not know why these
troubles had come; but he would not say that God had dealt unjustly in letting
him suffer. Job did not understand God’s ways, but he believed that God was
good; and he left himself in God’s hands. And at last God himself spoke to Job
and to his friends, telling them that it is not for man to judge God, and that
God will do right by every man. And the Lord said to the three friends of Job:

“You have not
spoken of me what is right, as Job has. Now bring an offering to me; and Job
shall pray for you, and for his sake I will forgive you.”

So Job prayed for his
friends, and God forgave them. And because in all his troubles Job had been
faithful to God, the Lord blessed Job once more, and took away his boils from
him, and made him well. Then the Lord gave to Job more than he had ever owned
in the past, twice as many sheep, and oxen, and camels, and asses. And God gave
again to Job seven sons and three daughters; and in all the land there were no
women found so lovely as the daughters of Job. After his trouble, Job lived a
long time, in riches, and honor, and goodness, under God’s care

Chaldea

have come in three bands, and have taken away all
the camels. They have killed the men who were with them; and I am the only one
left alive!”