{"id":19145,"date":"2021-03-09T15:26:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T15:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoklahomaeagle.net\/?p=19145"},"modified":"2021-03-09T15:26:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T15:26:54","slug":"weekly-words-of-inspiration-from-pastor-anthony-l-scott-tears-and-dust-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/2021\/03\/09\/weekly-words-of-inspiration-from-pastor-anthony-l-scott-tears-and-dust-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Words Of Inspiration From Pastor Anthony L. Scott: Tears And Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"

www.fbcnt.org<\/a>
\nBy Pastor Anthony Scott
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Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground<\/em><\/p>\n

and worshiped, saying: Naked I came from my mother\u2019s womb, and naked<\/em><\/p>\n

I will leave this life. The LORD gives, and the LORD takes away. Blessed be the <\/em><\/p>\n

name of the LORD. \u2013 Job 1:20-21 (CSB)<\/em><\/p>\n

 
\nThe story of Job offers you and I a wonderful life lesson on how dependence on God and submission to God\u2019s will go hand in hand.\u00a0 In this paradigm of dependency, we are humbled and set free from the burden of trying to do what only God can do.\u00a0 In a nutshell, we are taught through this one man\u2019s ordeal that indeed submission strengthens independence.
\nWe learn how dependence on God and submission to God\u2019s will go hand in hand by looking at Job\u2019s submissive grief<\/em>.\u00a0 Our fast-paced world, and forward-looking culture does not want to spend too much time grieving.\u00a0 A funeral director recently remarked that during Bible times people would grieve for forty days.\u00a0 Even fifty years ago people allowed themselves more time to grieve.\u00a0 By contrast, people today want to grieve forty minutes so they can get on with their lives.
\nHe went on to say it is no wonder that people have emotional problems long after a death because they have not grieved long enough over their losses and come to terms with their own mortality.\u00a0 Job, however, expressed his sorrow in a way that honored God. Tearing his clothes and shaving his head were signs of intense grief and mourning.\u00a0 Falling to worship God was an expression of Job\u2019s deep devotion to God.
\nThis lesson also reveals this patriarch\u2019s submissive humility<\/em> as he humbled himself before God realizing that nothing truly belongs to him.\u00a0 All that we have and or possess is a gift from God. We are stewards of all the blessings God chooses to give us.\u00a0 \u201cThe earth and everything in it, the world and its inhabitants, belong to the LORD (Psalm 24:1).
\nIn addition to his display of submissive grief and submissive humility, we see demonstrated submissive faith<\/em>.\u00a0 It is so easy to declare that God is sovereign but so difficult to trust in God\u2019s sovereignty.\u00a0 Our knowledge of God and the practical application of what we know do not always coincide.\u00a0 By the time we get to the end of Job\u2019s saga we find a man who not only knows that God is good but has learned to trust God\u2019s goodness and wisdom.
\nThe final takeaway we garner from this lesson on how dependence on God and submission to God\u2019s will go hand in hand is illustrated in Job\u2019s submissive praise<\/em>.\u00a0 \u201cHe fell to the ground and worshiped.\u201d\u00a0 The very ground where he grieved was transformed into a place of worship.\u00a0 His place of tears became an altar of praise.\u00a0 His weeping before God partnered with his dependence and submission to God turned the ground into a dust sanctuary.\u00a0 \u201cBlessed be the name of the LORD.
\nThe psalmist David refers to God collecting tears in a bottle. It appears in Psalm 56:8 when he says, \u201cYou yourself have recorded my wanderings. Put my tears in your bottle<\/em>.\u00a0 Are they not in your book?\u201d\u00a0 This custom of antiquity is what the woman in Luke 7:36-50 was relying upon when she brought and broke her alabaster box of perfume and began to worship Jesus by washing his feet with her tears.\u00a0 She had been collecting and intermingling her tears in a perfume bottle until she heard that Jesus was near and took all her grief, pain, and problems and pored them at the feet of Jesus in an act of Worship.
\nBeloved, depend on God, trust in His will, and watch Him change your Tears and Dust<\/em> into your place of Hope and Healing!
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