“If a man dies, SHALL HE LIVE AGAIN? All the days of my hard service I WILL WAIT, TILL MY CHANGE COMES.” (Job 14:14) Did you ever notice that the great monuments of the earth are dedicated to death? One of the seven wonders, the Pyramids: death. The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus: death even took the name of the king Mausolus and made it a place, a mausoleum for death. St. Peter’s in Rome: over the grave of the apostle. St. Paul’s in Rome: over the grave of the apostle. If you’ve ever been to Paris, one of the tremendous monuments in all France, to Napoleon Bonaparte. Many of you have been to Westminster Chapel in London; it is a place for the burial of the dead. Even in our own nation in Washington, there is the Jefferson Memorial; there is the Lincoln Memorial; there is the Washington Monument, all dedicated in the memory of ONE WHO IS DEAD.
So Job wrote in the fourteenth chapter of his book ETHAN AND KATIE. After the death, and standing by the graves of his ten children, Job wrote: “Man who is born of woman is a few days, and full of trouble. He comes forth like a flower, and fades away: he flees like a shadow, and does not continue. There is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that its tender shoots will not cease. Though its root may grow old in the earth, and its stump may die in the ground; Yet at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant. But man dies, and is laid away. He breathes his last and WHERE IS HE? As waters disappear from the sea, and as a river becomes parched and dries up; So man lies down, and does not rise…” (Job 14:1-11) THAT’S HOW IT SEEMS AS WE MOURN THE LOSS OF A LOVED ONE.
But then Job says by faith, “If a man dies, SHALL HE LIVE AGAIN? All the days of my hard service I WILL WAIT, TILL MY CHANGE COMES.” (Job 14:14)
HE KNOWS HIS CHANGE IS COMING SO HE DOES LIKE WE DO, HE (BY FAITH) WAITS…
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