Gratitude Restored

Revelation Restores Gratitude

• Then Job replied to the Lord: I  know that you can do anything and no plan of yours can be thwarted.  You asked, “Who is this who conceals my counsel with ignorance?  Surely I spoke about things I did not understand, things too wondrous for me to know. You said, “Listen now, and I will speak. When I question you, you will inform me.” I had heard reports about you, but now my eyes have seen you. Job 42:1–5 CSB

Restoration Begins With Repentance and Surrender

• Therefore, I reject my words and am sorry for them; I am dust and ashes. Job 42:6 CSB

Gratitude Overflows Into Forgiveness and Obedience

• After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and doubled his previous possessions. Job 42:10 CSB

God Restores Because He Is Faithful

• After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and doubled his previous possessions.  All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances  came to him and dined with him in his house. They sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity the Lord had brought on him. Each one gave him a piece of silver, and a gold earring.  So the Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned fourteen thousand sheep and goats, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys. He also had seven sons and three daughters. He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.  No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers. Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. Then Job died, old and full of days.  Job 42:10–17 CSB

• When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.  Our mouths were filled with laughter then, and our tongues with shouts of joy.  Then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”  The Lord had done great things for us; we were joyful.  Psalm 126:1–3 CSB

Our Ultimate Restoration Is Found in Christ

• Therefore we do not give up.  Even though our outer person is being destroyed, our inner person  is being renewed day by day. For our momentary light affliction  is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.  So we do not focus on what is seen,  but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:16–18 CSB

• See, we count as blessed those who have endured.  You have heard of Job’s endurance  and have seen the outcome that the Lord brought about — the Lord is compassionate and merciful.  James 5:11 CSB