GOD HAS A REWARD

Then Job replied to the Lord:

"I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted." (Job 42:1-2)

Ron Dunn, in his book entitled "When Heaven is Silent", tells us the following:  There is a purpose, Job says. I may not know what that purpose is, but it is enough to know that there is one. And this is one of the supreme lessons of the book of Job:  Our suffering serves some larger purpose of God. "This links our human lives with a divine purpose, just at the point where the purposes of God seem broken off. Pain is transformed into privilege; sorrow becomes the sign of divine approval."

One last thing the author of Job wants us to learn - God has a reward. "After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before...The Lord blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first" (Job 42:10,12 NIV).

Well, let's see how God rewarded Job. Remember that He gave Job twice as much as he had before...sheep, camels, oxen, donkeys, and offspring. God gave back to Job seven sons and three daughters; he started with seven and three. Wait, I must have read that wrong. He had seven sons and three daughters...No, that can't be right. He started out with ten children, now he ought to have twenty.

Wait, I get it! He did have twenty children. Ten down here and ten in heaven.

Because you never lose someone when

they go to heaven.