When Everything Fails, It’s Over (standard:humor, 904 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: May 10 2020	Views/Reads: 1325/1029	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
In one way, Aunt Flora was right. When everything fails, it’s over. But not the way she thought. Looking at it from Job’s point of view, when everything fails, it is time for God to do what only God can do.

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the conflict, problems and disaster that came down upon him. He did not 
know what was coming, did not know when it was coming or why it was 
coming, but all kinds of problems surrounded him. 

Amid those problems, Mrs. Job comes to her husband and says, "Curse God,
and die" (Job 2:9). I cannot imagine any wife saying such a thing to 
her husband. Yet, that is exactly what old Aunt Flora would have done. 
Who knows, maybe she did say that many times to her ex-husbands. 

I do not know how Job really got through all his problems, particularly
when he did not have a wife to support him. I think she had the same 
attitude as Aunt Flora. 

What I like about Job was, despite his wife's encouragement to give up,
Job said something that amazes me. "Though he slay me, yet will I trust 
in him” (Job 13:15a). 

Job did not hold to the same ideas as Mrs. Job or Aunt Flora, which
says, “When everything fails, it's over.” 

Talking with Aunt Flora, I would always come away discouraged and
depressed. She had not a positive thing to say about anything or 
anybody. If you were on a high and you wanted to find a way down, just 
spend time with Aunt Flora. 

While we were talking about Aunt Flora, I happen to think of one of my
favorite verses in the Bible. “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; 
and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge 
him, and he shall direct thy paths” (Proverbs 3:5-6). 

In one way, Aunt Flora was right. When everything fails, it's over. But
not the way she thought. Looking at it from Job's point of view, when 
everything fails, it is time for God to do what only God can do.


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