Support for the Righteous In Times of Trouble

UV 4277/10000 Support for the Righteous in Times of Trouble Behold, God will not reject a man of integrity, nor will He strengthen or support evildoers. Job 8 v 20 God will not reject or refuse a person who is impeccable in his word to God, self and others. He promises to fill the mouth of such a one with joy. He will not let the words of such a person to fall on the ground in vain. If it falls, it will bear fruit, much fruit. If the person falls, the Lord will uphold him or her while He is not going to offer a hand of support to the evildoer on the day the latter falls. Of course, only Jesus in all of the human species though being God fully fulfilled the standard of integrity of God. Only He never fell short of His glory and therefore, was acceptable as the sacrifice for all, to justify all. As the prophet Isaiah recorded in advance, when Jesus was afflicted, people of the day thought that He was stricken for His own faults but Jesus was afflicted for the sake of all of humanity. When we, justified by faith in the “good root”, Jesus, stick to God like a leech, we will be strengthened greatly. His word will flow in our blood even as His blood sanctified us and made us be counted among the sinless. Without that connection with God, we are rootless, vain, helpless like the worm. Without Him, we will be like the papyrus or reeds that will dry up without standing water to support and sustain it. As we remain rooted in Christ and grow up in Him, He will cause us to flourish. He will fill our mouths with laughter and our lips with shouts of joy. In the case of Job, God fulfilled His word, His promise and though he was sorely tested, badly afflicted, the Lord restored him to be even more prosperous, peaceful and happy as before. The uni-verse and the examples of both Job and Jesus shows us that we are to “be patient in afflictions, joyful in hope.” Under the new covenant dispensation, unlike in the time of Job, we have the Holy Spirit ministering to us, comforting us, holding our hand to strengthen, encourage, guide, counsel us.