Beloved, in continuance of our theme “The Allegories in the Book of Job” – When man was deprived of the happiness of Eden, he lost all that he had, because of his sinful choice. Like Job, Adam could say, “the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away” (Job 1:21). However, Job, unlike Adam, offered homage (payment) unto God with praise and thanksgiving, “blessed be the name of the LORD” (Job 1:21). When Adam sinned, all he offered to the Lord was an excuse, “The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat” (Genesis 3:12). It is no wonder that “the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning” (Job 42:12), as opposed to Adam, who had everything in the beginning and lost everything in the end (see Genesis 3:24). God drove Adam out of the place of his blessings!
Precious Ones, this teaches us in allegory that God prefers praise over excuses. The story also teaches us that if we continue to lift Jesus up in praise and worship, the latter days of our human existence will be glorious and will far exceed anything that our natural eyes have beheld. It is written that “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (I Corinthians 2:9).
Chosen Ones, let us not follow the pattern of Adam, but rather that of Job. Let us “bless the LORD at all times [and let] his praise…continually be in [our mouths]” (Psalm 34:1).
I love you all SO very much.
In His Love,
Pastor William L. McCoy
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