UNCONDITIONAL LOVE FOR GOD

Job 1:8 "Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who

fears God and shuns evil."

No matter how sick you might be, no matter if you are sitting in a prison cell (whether innocent or guilty) you haven't suffered more than Job, a man who lived thousands of years ago---a man whose name is always associated with suffering. But, also, a man whose name is associated with loving God unconditionally.

Job loved God, not just because of what God could do for Him, but because God was God. Although Job didn’t understand everything about God, He understood that God was the One who gave him breath and who deserved his worship. He understood that God caused him to prosper, but his love for God was not conditioned upon that. When Job was struck with illness and misfortune---when he lost all that he had---he didn't lose his belief in God. Even in the midst of his great despair, when his family and friends accused him of all manner of sins he had not committed, Job didn't renounce God. In fact, he said "though He slay me, yet will I trust Him" (Job 13:15)

 After a period of time, God spoke to Job (and to his erring friends) and gave Job a much greater revelation of Himself. When Job, who was the most righteous man on earth, saw God in all His holiness, he repented and worshipped God even more than before. God told Job to prayer for his friends and when Job did that, God restored his fortune and his health. In fact, He more than restored it; He gave him far more than he'd had before.

Job 42:10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before. 

Job had suffered and lost all, but because Job's love for God wasn't based on his circumstances or merely on God's gifts, God reversed his circumstances. We are living in a YEAR OF REVERSAL. But, in order to experience true reversal, we must LOVE GOD JUST BECAUSE HE IS GOD.

Do you love God unconditionally. Do you know that He is with you when you are having a "bad" day just as He is when your day seems great? If you feel that you fall a bit short of this, don't despair; God Himself will give us the kind of love and faith we need to trust Him in everything. All we have to do is ask God and He will supply. In fact, of all the things we could possible ask God to give us, this is the most important and the thing God most wants to give us.

ASK HIM NOW.

Matthew 7:7-8 Keep on asking and it will be given you; keep on seeking and you will find; keep on knocking [reverently] and [the door] will be opened to you. For everyone who keeps on asking receives; and he who keeps on seeking finds; and to him who keeps on knocking, [the door] will be opened.

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    GOD HAS GOOD

 PLANS

 FOR YOUR

FUTURE

know what I'm doing.

 I have it all planned out--

plans to take care of you,

 not abandon you,

plans to give you

the future you hope for.

   "When you call on me,

when you come

and pray to me,

 I'll listen.

Jeremiah 29:11

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