WHEN NO ONE IS LEFT

Today's reading: Job 19-20

"My relatives stay far away, and my friends have turned against me. My neighbors and my close friends are all gone. The members of my household have forgotten me. The servant girls consider me a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them." Job 19:13-15 NLT

Job felt battered and bruised--and alone.

Sure people were around him, he did after all have three 'friends' sitting beside him in the ash pile where a majority of his mourning occurred--but he still felt alone.

He felt distanced from people, and honestly, people distanced themselves from him.

Like they do today--if you don't know what to say, you stay away. If you're afraid of saying the wrong thing, you stay away. If you can't say anything, you tend to stay away. If you can't say anything without crying alongside them, you tend to stay away.

It's nothing new under the sun.

Maybe, just maybe, you're experiencing it right now. You're going through a season when you feel alone. You are enduring some things that no one else can relate to. You are walking through a fire of your own soul.

Know what Job knew--your Redeemer lives!

"But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that he will stand upon the earth at last." Job 19:25 NLT

Job, and maybe you, felt as if almost all he knew had flown out the window--but what he continued to know, in the depths of his heart, was that God was with him. God had never left him.

Your Redeemer lives, friend.