Resist!
Blessings brothers,
The days and difficulties have an expiration date, expiration date. The situations around you are going to end. My prayer is that you resist, until your bad day ends.
We all have a bad day. In the Bible, we see the story of Job, right before God, but his bad day came. And several people came to him; his wife, and three friends. Job had been there for others, but now, on his bad day, he was surrounded by people who did not sympathize with him.
"If your children sinned against him, he cast them away in the place of their sin." Job 8: 4
In other words, Bildad, a friend of Job, was saying: If God killed your children, it is because they deserved it. The same religion has taught us that all the evil that happens to us is because, in some way or another, many times, we provoke it. But the reality is that there are things that happen to you that you have not provoked. There are things that happen to you that have been the product of the bad decisions of others.
Avoid the Bildad in your life. The Bildads are those who are going to throw you the cupla, who are going to tell you that you must have done something wrong. There are parents bearing the guilt of decisions their children have made. In the Bible, there are bad parents with good children, and there are good parents with bad children. The worst that can happen is that you think that what is happening to you is your fault. And if the children are experts in something, it is in that, in blaming the parents for their bad decisions. They say they are what they are, what you did, what you said. And it is sad that the bad day comes, and what we have is this kind of people in our life; people who tell us to renounce God, as his wife told Job. At this comment, Job replied:
"10 As any of the fatuous women usually speak, you have spoken. What? Will we receive good from God, and we will not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips. "Job 2:10
Job resisted the comment of his wife and his friends. In the same way, you have to learn to resist this group of people. This is what Paul says to you, in Ephesians 6:13; that you take all the armor of God, so that you can resist in the bad day, and having finished everything, to be firm. Resist those who want to provoke you to give up your relationship with God because of the problems you are having. Forget and get away from those who do not understand and do not feel sorry for your pain. You have to learn to be there when someone needs you. We are so wrapped up in our things, that we forget that many of us are not living a bad day, but a difficult time; but there are people who are living the bad day of truth, that everything is against them, that they do not know what they are going to do.
You can not live with the guilt of the things that happen to you. You have to be free from guilt. The bad day is not because you have done something wrong, it is not because you are bad. Free yourself from the guilt of the past. What you are living today is not your fault. Maybe you were responsible, you had to make certain decisions, but if today you stand firm and declare that your bad day is going to have an end, everything will start to change from now on.
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Very good, I love it. I will say I think Job did sin in the form of not trusting God. "For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me." Job3:25 Not trusting in God is disbelief, which is sin. So I'm thinking Job was making sacrifices daily or monthly for his children that he was suppose to be making once a year. In doing this he was demonstrating disbelief. God bless!
Thanks very good comment!
Excellent explanation Darlenys, very grateful with the contribution of your publications. Blessings and you have to resist always.
thank you!
There will always be those Bildad voices in our environment to accuse and discourage us but we must remain in the freedom to which Christ has called us.
The Bible says in John 10: 27-28,
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me,
28 and I give them eternal life; and they shall never perish, nor shall any one pluck them out of my hand.
What means that there is only one voice to listen and obey, we are not unknown to the owner of that voice because we are freed and although many Bildad will not be able to separate us from him.