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வேதாகமத் தியானம் எண் - 1653 ஆதவன் 17.08.2025 ஞாயிறு
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Scripture Meditation No. 1653
AATHAVAN – Sunday, 17 August 2025
"Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." (Job 1:21)
When God fills and leads us by His Spirit, the riches of this world do not appear so great to us. Even if we are not as wealthy as others, we will not be disheartened. Today, none of us may have faced losses like Job did; yet it is still very difficult for us to say, as Job said in today’s verse. In fact, the question is not just whether it is hard, but whether we could truly say it at all—unless we have one hundred percent trust in God.
Job was no ordinary rich man; he was like the great billionaires of our day. “His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.” (Job 1:3) In those times, this was immense wealth.
Yet, after losing all his possessions and all his children, Job did not lose his faith in God. He declared: "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."
Dearly beloved, from this we learn that it was according to God’s will that Satan brought such losses upon Job. But though Satan stripped Job of everything, he could not take God away from him—because the glorious God cannot be touched by a lowly Satan.
Today, even if we cannot endure such losses as Job, we must live with the assurance that no one can easily take away the glorious God who dwells in us. As the Apostle Paul says, this is a mystery: “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27)
Therefore, we must first shift the zeal we show in storing up perishable worldly riches toward gaining Christ and having Him as the hope of glory within us. Then, even if we face losses in this world, we will not lose our faith.
That is why the Apostle Paul says, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” (Romans 8:35, 37) He does not say, “I am a conqueror” alone, but includes us: “we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.”
Let us therefore ask the Holy Spirit to give us such unwavering faith. For the Lord Jesus Christ says, “Every one that asketh receiveth.” (Matthew 7:8)
Message by — Brother M. Geo Prakash
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