{"id":622,"date":"2020-11-27T01:13:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T01:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=622"},"modified":"2020-11-23T01:14:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T01:14:49","slug":"thankful-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/thankful-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, November 27<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thankful Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n

For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth. Job 19:25<\/strong><\/p>\n

Job went through a lot. He lost everything in a matter of hours. He had every reason to look at all his circumstances and think it would be OK to blame God and even, as his wife suggested, \u201ccurse God and die\u201d (Job 2:9). Job was going through the toughest time of his life when he spoke the words in Job 19. There is no doubt Job had a reason to be bitter. Instead what we read is Job finding his praise. Yet, throughout his suffering, he remained \u201cblameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.\u201d (Job 2:3).<\/p>\n

The story of Job ends in great victory. All was removed but God also restored. Last Friday I encouraged you to use your praise. Praise makes the enemy flee. It pushes back the darkness that surrounds, and blocks the attacks and hissing lies over us.<\/p>\n

It was out of the depths of his pain that Job spoke these words of praise – \u201cI know that my redeemer lives<\/em>.\u201d He was talking about an event that would take place hundreds of years later, at a place called Calvary and which, today, we can appreciate. Jesus lives!<\/p>\n

It is the One who has overcome death that invites us to receive Him as our Savior and make Him Lord of our lives. So, in the midst of personal, national and, even, international trauma and crisis, as believers we have an amazing message to declare to a very hurting world \u2013 Jesus Lives. He has conquered death and that whatever difficulties we are having to walk through, Job\u2019s declaration holds good for each of us who know the Lord \u2013 for the whole of time and eternity.<\/p>\n

During the times of national insecurity the church remains secure. Our security is in Jesus Christ \u2013 now and for evermore. Hallelujah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday, November 27 Thankful Friday For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth. Job 19:25 Job went through a lot. He lost everything in a matter of hours. He had every reason to look at all his circumstances and think it would be OK to blame God […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}