Thank You God For Your Faith In Me....

Oh my gosh! I don't know what it is lately!! I just have had a horrible few days....I teared up in the Taco Bell drive thru tonight just asking God, what is the deal??? I have worked hard at being the person I am, striving to be honest, honorable, dependable, fair, just, non-judgmental.......but when life happens and you start to almost feel taken advantage of, you start to HATE the good qualities you posses because you feel like people don't deserve it! I know that's a horrible attitude to have, yet sometimes it's difficult to get over these feelings!

I was ready to go to bed when 'Job 2:23' kept popping into my head....

{Side Note: Some people will understand where I am coming from, based on my experience w/having a relationship w/God, some people desire and hunger for the same relationship, and others will be judgmental and think i'm crazy, but the later does not matter (haha I rhymed) to me, I know God directs me in everything I do, and his Holy Spirit is my counselor, just as Jesus said 'But the counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you". (John 14:26)}

...So I was obedient, (feeling strongly that God had something he wanted me to read) Well, when I tried to find Job 2:23, it didn't exist! (There are only 13 verses in Job 2) So I just read that...here's what it said:

"One day when the angels came to report to God, Satan also showed up. God singled out Satan, saying, "And what have you been up to?" Satan answered God, "Oh, going here and there, checking things out." Then God said to Satan, "Have you noticed my friend Job? There's no one quite like him, is there—honest and true to his word, totally devoted to God and hating evil? He still has a firm grip on his integrity! You tried to trick me into destroying him, but it didn't work."

Satan answered, "A human would do anything to save his life. But what do you think would happen if you reached down and took away his health? He'd curse you to your face, that's what."

God said, "All right. Go ahead—you can do what you like with him. But mind you, don't kill him."

Satan left God and struck Job with terrible sores. Job was ulcers and scabs from head to foot. They itched and oozed so badly that he took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself, then went and sat on a trash heap, among the ashes.

His wife said, "Still holding on to your precious integrity, are you? Curse God and be done with it!" He told her, "You're talking like an empty-headed fool. We take the good days from God—why not also the bad days?" Not once through all this did Job sin. He said nothing against God."

So, I took this as God reminding me that He has great faith in me. That He is up there telling Satan the same thing about me, "do what you like with her, but her faith will not waiver.....and He is right! And as Job told his wife, "We take the good days from God - why not also the bad days?" So to this counseling session, I say, Thank you so much God - for having faith in me and for reminding me that YOU have given me the strength and courage and integrity to handle anything Satan tries to send my way......I am truly humbled tonight.....