Knowing Him

“For I know that my Redeemer lives,
And He shall stand at last on the earth”
Job 19:25

Now, that is the kind of faith that you and I need today... Coming out of the mouth of a man of the land! You know folks, as I am dictating this message to you we are having a full-on thunderstorm. The kind of thunderstorm you get in summer on the farm, yet we are in the middle of winter. People are saying, “What’s happening? We are expecting snow and all kinds of weather.”

But Job said, “I know that my Redeemer lives” - Job, the farmer. He made this famous statement when he was in dire straits. His friends had deserted him and his farm had failed. Even his very own beloved wife said to him, Job 2:9:

“Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!”

And what was the man of God’s response?

“Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.”
Job 13:15

Now that is the kind of faith that the Lord Jesus is looking for from us today. Another farmer, in fact, was a shepherd - his name was David, said:

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil;
For You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.”
Psalm 23:4

In this testing time that we are living where churches are virtually closed down. People are isolating themselves, they don’t want to talk to each other. My wife says she goes to the shops and people are buying their groceries and leaving straight away. And that used to be a time when farmer’s wives would have a long chat and speak about the things that are happening on the farm.

We need to know Jesus now more intimately than ever before. The great apostle Paul said:

“That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death”
Philippians 3:10

I remember that wonderful movie made about Corrie Ten Boom, that Dutch lady. She was a watchmaker. She was sent to a concentration camp with her sister and her old dad for hiding Jews in their jewellery shop. She was nursing her sister, Betsy -Betsy was dying in her arms and she was crying out to God. She was crying out to God, “Lord, why, why?”
And this quiet voice from her sister, Betsy, came up and said, ”Corrie if you know Him, you don’t have to ask why!”

I want to encourage you today to get to know the Good Shepherd. He will not disappoint you!
God bless you and have a wonderful day.