Eye Has Not Seen

 

Job 42:11 Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances before, came to him and ate food with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and each a ring of gold. 12 Now the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys. 13 He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 And he called the name of the first Jemimah, the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-Happuch. 15 In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. 16 After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations. 17 So Job died, old and full of days.

Here we are, at the end of the Book of Job. A book that starts out with a devout believer experiencing great blessing, only to have it all stripped away. He even lost his ten children tragically in a tornado, and then was inflicted with extremely painful sores.

He went from someone you would want to hang out with to a pitiful man who was difficult to look at and in fact was unrecognizable to his friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar.

Here at the end of the Book, Job evidently has been healed of his sores and now his brothers and sisters and friends begin to call on him again. Words that didn’t come easily when Job was going through his struggles, now apparently flow like honey. They comfort Job, they console Job after the fact.

 

The motivation behind this reversal of a desire for fellowship is irrelevant here. The main point is fellowship has been restored! Let us rejoice in that!

His livestock restored in spades! Rejoice!

Gifted with 10 more children including three stunningly beautiful daughters. So strikingly beautiful that they are named! A rare honor in Scripture! Rejoice!

 Job is granted many more years and is able to see his great, great, great, grandchildren, and he dies “old and full of days.” Which is another way of saying, “he lived a full life!” Rejoice!

 

This account of Job is mentioned in another place in Scripture and well worth noting as a lesson for all of us! Jas 5:11 says, “Indeed we count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord--that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

The lesson for all of us is to endure and persevere. As we reside in this veil of tears this side of heaven, we will have trial and tribulation, but the end result for those who endure is enjoying the end intended all along for you by a compassionate and merciful Lord!

That “good end” may happen in the here and now as it did for Job, but it also may be reserved for you in heaven, where Jesus is busily preparing a mansion for you! As you hang in there during those tough times remember: 1Co 2:9 But as it is written: Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him."

 

Endure! Persevere in the faith. There is a compassionate and merciful God who intends to bless you!