Friday 2 October 2015

Hope & New Beginnings


One of my favourite books of the Bible has been Job for the last couple of years.

It is an amazing reminder of God's faithfulness through everything.  Job who lost everything he had stood steadfast in his grief, trusted God for who He is,

And I love the amazing restoration that God brought to Job's life.

And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house, and they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold. And the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. He also had seven sons and three daughters. (Job 42:10-13 RSV)

This is my year of Hope and today is the day of new beginnings!