Job maintained his faith because of a lifetime of exercising that faith. Job was a man of prayer, a man of devotion, a man who practiced righteousness and when he failed in righteousness, he practiced repentance. This life of spiritual discipline enabled him to know that he was in a relationship with God where he was loved and valued.
Normally we think of judgement as a bad thing. We fear judgement, or we get angry at the prospect of being judged. But there’s real comfort in knowing that God will judge, even if that means he’s going to judge us because it shows that God is sovereign. He rules, he reigns; not all of the sin and consequences of sin that plague our world.
Salvation is the call of God into his holy presence which is made possible because Jesus endured the cross for you and for me, for all those who trust in him.
On Sunday, what will be doing? Will we remember how Christ is the only atoning sacrifice for sin, will we recommit our lives to him as we take the bread and the wine, will we earnestly examine our motives, what we really believe as we are challenged by his life, death and resurrection.