Text: Job 1:1-3
“There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job…this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.”
With these words we are introduced to Job.
The Bible says that Job was the greatest man in the East (understand that to mean he was the richest man in the East). In Job’s day, the East was the richest part of the world.
Yet Job never slept in an air-conditioned house or drove a car on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. He never flew in a jet plane or watched a movie on television. He never called a friend on the telephone to check up on him.
I have done all these things.
If Job was rich, then what am I?
What are you?
Ours is the age of being victims. It is the time of “Woe me and how come bad things happen to me.
Folks, you live in a land of plenty and in the richest land at the richest time in the history of the world. You eat at fancy restaurants and get cold water out of a refrigerator. God has given me and you much. We are left with one thought from Luke 12:48.
“To whomever much is given, of him will much be required.”
Read that again,
Sometimes I sit with loved ones and talk about what we can do to bless others. We all need to have that conversation, not with our loved ones, but with ourselves.
Lonnie Davis