Job 16-17Job knew that he was going to die. If he did not die of his present illness, at least in a few years he would succumb to the inevitable (Job 16:22). So, he asks a very important question, a question that much of the world still gets wrong. He asks where his hope is. Is it in death? No, death is going to Sheol and darkness and decay (the worm). Death is not Job’s hope. Job’s hope is the LORD.
Martha told Jesus that she knew her dead brother would rise on resurrection day.
“Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”” John 11:24
Jesus told Martha that he would be the one to raise Lazarus (and every other believer)from the dead on that day:
“Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life.1 Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”” John 11:25-26
Job, by faith looked beyond the reality of his own death, and held to a hope in God. He did not know Jesus’ name, but he trusted him just the same.
LORD, give us the wisdom to – like Job –put our hope not in death, but in your resurrection.
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