Job wasn't aware what was going on in heaven, we know because we have been allowed to see but, we generally don't know the whys and the wherefore, the reasons things happen, things that God lets happen, the things that God causes to happen, that engulf the innocent and the saints the good and the young.
My job this morning is to tell you that Christ is everything you need, everything you would want.
But brothers and sisters some of you are
going to loose money and want it back, some are going to loose property and want it back some are going to loose friends and family to death and want them back, some of you will be physically afflicted with pain in your life and you will want it to stop, and I'm going to ask you to remember that Christ is everything you need and everything you would want.
The scriptures tell us this about Christ
Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation.
Col 1:16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things were created through him and for him.
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
No Christ, no life, no nothing.
Of all the things you are going to need you are going to need your soul, saved.
As it says in
Mar 8:36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
Mar 8:37 For what can a man give in return for his soul?
And for that we are always going to need a Saviour.
Although we wouldn't like to, we can do without so many things in our life. Although we would be heart broken about loosing many things in our life, especially the people we love, we can get by without them, as hard as that is at times.
But we cant get by with out the Christ.
We need him and thank God for him.
But do we want him?
Well, you seem like a descent lot and your here so I think you do.
We have tried, the guys and myself, to show over the last few months Christ in various guises, to show different sides to Christ, as our leader, servant, friend, high priest. Christ the man, the worker, the king, all of which you will be happy to know culminate back into the one person, Christ our savour. Showing him in this light we hoped to show a little more the depth, shape, nature of Christ to better understand the grace of God.
And I have come up with the last lesson on the whole thing. I'm suppose to wrap it all up, touching all the base's if I can, I guess.
It's true, Christ is all these wonderful things but more than anything he is, The Christ, the Saviour of the world.
I have started off with Job this morning in the hope that you are able to make a comparison with his life and yours. Because life can get bad, life can get ugly and life can get mean and it can kick you in the teeth.
No one ever had such a run of bad luck as Job, but it's worse than that, it wasn't bad luck it was God and he knew what was going to happen and this Jesus is from the same stock. It just might turn out mean for you too. But there is a difference, Job was basically seeing in the dark with the limited knowledge of God he had but, still, managed to stay faithful. We are seeing in a little less darkness, we know so much more, we have found the Christ and are sure of his promises. Not always so sure of the route he will take with our lives but, sure about the promises. And maybe there's something else you should know, He isn't interested in your comfort he is interested in you, your life.
Life is about Him keeping his promises and us keeping the faith. And in-between all that, promises and us keeping the faith, life, happens! Our life happens and it's a life that is interlaced with God.
Take a look at Gods people, from the start He has been there.
At the beginning and all the way through, look at the history of the thing there He is. Now there He is walking with us in Christ. He's never out of our lives,
David said this
Psa 139:1 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, you have searched me and known me!
Psa 139:2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
Psa 139:3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
Psa 139:4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.
Psa 139:5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
Psa 139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.
Psa 139:7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?
Psa 139:8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
Psa 139:9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
Psa 139:10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
Psa 139:11 If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,"
Psa 139:12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.
Psa 139:13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
Psa 139:14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
Psa 139:15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Psa 139:16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
Psa 139:17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
Psa 139:18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.
Psa 139:23 Look deep into my heart, God, and find out everything I am thinking.
Psa 139:24 Don't let me follow evil ways, but lead me in the way that time has proven true.
Having looked at scripture, having weight it and looked at it some more I have this to say.
It's a love affair, this thing going on with God is a love affair.
And this life is a courtship.
And pretty soon there is going be a marriage and it's going be signed and sealed forever.
And with this story, this story, is the only story were you can honestly write in the end credits,
And they lived happily ever after.
He is everything you need and everything you would want.
I sometimes, when I'm looking for Ann, I will say, “were are you” “were are you”, “were are you” and keep repeating it about a million times until I find her, (it's my wee joke) do you think that's a bit much?
This God he's a bit excessive, he is all over you.
His breath made you, his spirit is in you, he came in the flesh to save you, He is in your mind and thoughts, He searches you, He follows you, He guides and shapes you, feeds you, waters you, clothes you, you live on his created planet.
And for later He said I have prepared a place for you.
He is everything you need and everything you would want.
Look before we roll the end titles, Happy ever after and so forth lets make a promise, lets make a promise to be bold, knowing what we know, lets make every effort to spread this news, because this is good news.
Whether we end up as Job or Solomon or somewhere in-between lets remember,
The Christ.
He is everything we need and everything we would want.