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Bible Questions & Answers Archive
Why Worry? By: Dr. Max D. Younce
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Question In Job 3:25, was Job telling Christians that everything we greatly fear will come upon us? Answer
I will quote Job 3:25, "For the thing which I
greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come
unto me." This verse has to be taken in context and is explained by
Job 1:4,5, where we find that Job continually made sacrifices for his
family, because he was afraid they might have "sinned or cursed God in
their hearts" and judgment might fall. This was "the thing" which Job
greatly feared. We would have to say, in this, Job typified many parents
of today. Job did not know that God was allowing Satan to
test him; as a result of which he lost his family, possessions, and
health. (Job 1:6-12 and Job 2:3-6). He did not know God was going to
bless him more at his latter end than his beginning for his faithful
endurance of the trial. God gives us the "rest of the story" in Job
42:12,13. God does not want Christians to be as worried as Job
reveals himself to have been in Job 2:26, "I was not in safety,
neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came." In other
word, "I worried, and trouble came anyway." What should a Christian do
when he experiences the testing of Satan as described in I Peter 5:8?
The answer: "Be careful for nothing (don’t worry!) ; but in
everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your
requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all
understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."
(Philippians 4:6,7) Why worry--when you can pray!
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