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Letter to My Consolers

Day 144

Reading: Job 13:1 - Job 17:16

Dear Friends,

Thank you for reaching to me whilst I am in trouble. I appreciate that you have chosen to seat with me and console me as I walk through this affliction. It's been tough and I am grateful that at least I am not alone as you have come to sit beside me as I try to figure out what is going on while I am in this sad state.

It's great to be in tough situations surrounded by friends. Great because I am not alone. Many times when we go through challenges we are left alone. Friends whom you have helped or relied on suddenly flee and leave you to cry alone. You haven't left me alone. You indeed are a different breed of friends.

I want you to know that my trust is in God. I may appear shaken and stirred, however, my trust is in God. Though He slays me my trust is wholly in Him. I believe I have a hope within me that just like a stump of a tree will grow at the scent of water flowing nearby I also know that as long as I am alive God will raise me up. 

I am concerned though with the accusations you have brought forth as you sought to analyse my situation. You have persistently preached a message of sin at me. You have constantly accused me of hidden sin as being the cause of my problems. Has God revealed to you or is it your own internal deductions that only sin against God can be the cause of my afflictions. Also, your words have been comfortless. You have spoken words not to strengthen me but to vilify me. 

My desire is that you plead with God for me. Everyone facing trouble has a great desire to be liberated. God is the Deliverer. He is able to save from the deepest pit we may find ourselves in. The desire of anyone in a hole or pit in life is for deliverance. To be lifted up and brought to safety. Prayer to God is required for that to happen as God is The Saviour. 

Apart from prayer and speaking words of comfort to one going through trouble, my dear friends, it's important that you be a source of hope. Don't approach someone from a place of misery because you become a miserable comforter. Be a source of hope in speech and action. Be one who lifts others from the downtrodden place. Purpose to be a lifter always and you will discover that you bring hope and joy to many.

With loads of love,

Job

Memory Verse: Job 16:5

Decree: 

"“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease.Though its root may grow old in the earth, and its stump may die in the ground, yet at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant." Job 14:7-9. (italics mine)
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