I cited Job.
I remember his trials but can't remember how it came out.
Did he win or lose.
2007-02-06 01:41:19 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He was blessed beyond measure for being faithful to God...lets pray for each other, I am also being stricken with issues.
God Bless you,
2007-02-06 01:45:39 · answer #1 · answered by Commander 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Job was given back all that he lost plus much more, including his health and in the resurrection he will be joined by all 10 of the children who died and the 10 children he had after the trials that he suffered. PLUS, he has proven his ability to remain faithful. He will be a perfect candidate for inheriting eternal life on a perfect paradise earth. I think he won!! May God help you to also gain victory over your tribulations.
2007-02-06 01:48:12 · answer #2 · answered by Sparkle1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if your question is a serious one to you. I suspect that it is not, because you probably have a Bible.
However, It really is a good question! What is considered winning and what is considered losing?
God is God whether He blesses us or curses us. Job's righteousness did not get him a life free from hardship and it could be argued that his righteousness got him a heap of misery. One will at this point, point out the end of the story where Job had received a double portion but a careful reading will show that this blessing was not because of Job's righteousness but God's free gift, a blessing.
Job most really and truly lost! He was not judge and had no arguments when God said "Where were you when the foundations were laid?" Job's arguments were silenced. True he was innocent of the charges of his friends but he had nothing to boast before God, as Job said "In sin did my mother conceive me". This was not a comment about his mother but about himself, sinful from conception. Job found out that neither his good works nor his bad merit goodness from God because God sends His rain on the just and the unjust alike. Job found out that He was at the mercy of a Holy God.
Job lost just like Jacob lost in his wrestling with the Angle but this losing was the best thing that happened to Jacob and to Job.
What of this mercy to losers and what of this God who is the God of foundations?
Jesus was truly righteous but this did not free him from hardship or his mother from misery, seeing her son die the death of the wicked. Jesus was righteous and yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him and place on Him the iniquity of all of us. It was according to the good pleasure of the Lord and not the will of man.
Jesus Lost! Some theologians call Him the biggest Loser. With God all things are possible even, Winning by losing!
"For He who losses his life will find it." (He who loses, wins)
The Lord Jesus His self is the foundation. 1Co 3:11 For no one is able to lay any other foundation beside the One having been laid, who is Jesus Christ.
Luk 20:18 Everyone falling on that Stone will be broken in pieces but on whomever It falls, It will crush him.
If you fall on this rock you will be broken (You will lose). Nobody falls willingly.
But as many as received Him, to them He gave authority to become children of God, to the ones believing into His name, who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but were born of God.
(Joh 1:12-13)
You will find you will even lose your “Free will”
2007-02-06 03:02:14 · answer #3 · answered by Steve R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He won.
2007-02-06 01:44:19 · answer #4 · answered by ticklemeblue 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What?
2007-02-06 01:43:44 · answer #5 · answered by U Have Nothing Better 2 Do 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that you are only playing the fool with this question. Please play elsewhere.
2007-02-06 03:44:52 · answer #6 · answered by jasmin2236 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋