{"id":3955,"date":"2014-08-28T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=3955"},"modified":"2014-08-27T13:16:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T20:16:13","slug":"god-has-been-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/god-has-been-so-good\/","title":{"rendered":"GOD HAS BEEN SO GOOD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Job 1:20-21<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>and said:\u2018<\/em><em>Naked I came from my mother\u2019s womb,<\/em><em>and naked I will depart.<\/em><em>The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;\u00a0<\/em><em>may the name of the Lord be praised<\/em><em>.\u2019<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Over the years I have come to appreciate the book of <em>Job<\/em>. It is amazing that this very righteous man could lose all of his wealth, most of his servants, and worst of all, his ten children. Having lost one daughter, I know something of the heartache that must have seized him.<\/p>\n<p>It brings us to consider what is important in life. We know that the things of this world, even the people of this world, will pass away, but there is a glorious eternity waiting for all who will receive Jesus Christ as personal Savior.<\/p>\n<p>It is not what we do that merits that wonderful home in glory that is waiting for us. It is only by the precious atoning blood of Jesus that we have the confident assurance that our name is written down in glory.<\/p>\n<p>Job could look beyond the horrible losses in his life and see that God is good. Some people wait for health or wealth in order to praise the Lord. Job could not have known what was going on in heaven between God and Satan that resulted in his pain. The one thing he did know:<strong><em><sup>\u00a0 <\/sup><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><strong><em>\u201cThe Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>may the name of the Lord be praised<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span> \u00a0I want that kind of faith!<\/p>\n<p>May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job 1:20-21 At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship\u00a0and said:\u2018Naked I came from my mother\u2019s womb,and naked I will depart.The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;\u00a0may the name of the Lord be praised.\u2019 Over the years I have come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}