Job 10:12 You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in Your providence watched over my spirit.
Here is another verse from the Word of God which is a personal testimony of the care of the LORD for a soul. Job was attesting to that. Looking back we all can say the same thing
God's providence
oversight, care, custody, mustering, visitation, store, punishment, charge, office, overseer, class of officers
God's Protection watched over
to keep, have charge of, guard, keep watch and ward, protect, save life
watch, watchman (participle), wait for, observe, retain, treasure up (in memory)
to keep (within bounds), restrain, celebrate, keep (sabbath or covenant or commands), perform (vow), preserve
Exodus 13:17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.”
God does not always take the quickest route to get us where He wants us to be.
Proverbs 4:6 Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you.
My ways are not your ways. My ways are beyond your finding out" (Isaiah 55:8). So who can understand God perfectly?
The idea is, that God had watched over him and preserved him, and that to his constant vigilance he owed the preservation of his life.
Three Things That the LORD does for us are recorded here, all of which has to do with His care for us:
1. He Gives Us Life.
Psalm 139:13 For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Acts 17:28 ‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’
He is Life.
John 1:1-4 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
God gave us life. He made us active mentally and physically and spiritually.
Genesis 2:7 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Ecclesiates 3.11 He has placed eternity in the hearts of men.
John 10.10 I have come that the may have life and that they might have it more abundantly.
Vitality-
Abundantly over and above, more than is necessary, superadded
exceeding abundantly, supremely
something further, more, much more than all, more plainly
People without Christ exist. They have mental and physical activity.
People with Christ have this vitality that is over and above just an existence.
They have purpose in their life.
They have communion with Almighty God through prayer.
They see things people without Him do not see.
Example- flower. Botanist without the LORD can see its beauty but he has no where except to others to express that beauty- When you know the Creator...
gardening, children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews... In time of pain, sorrow, questions.
Living for Christ is experiencing life to the full... even when death comes we have hope. We do not grieve like the rest of men who have no hope. We do grieve, but we do not despair.
2. He Has Shown us Kindness.
In Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 2:4-7 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
Genesis 32:9-10 Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, Lord, you who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,’ I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
Acts 14:17 Yet He has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; He provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.”
In the food we eat is the kindness of the LORD. He makes it rain. We complain about rain! How foolish! Can you imagine if we never got rain?
God sustains the earth. He keeps it going and the life He has put on it.
In the very breathe we just took is His kindness!
3. He Has Watched Over Our Souls.
He is the Great Shepherd of the Sheep
Psalm 1:6 For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.
Psalm 145:20 The LORD watches over all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
Psalm 142:3 When my spirit grows faint within me, it is You who watch over my way.
Psalm 121:7-8 The LORD will keep you from all harm—He will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.
He is our Defender.
He is our guide.
Psalm 48:14 For this God is our God for ever and ever; He will be our guide even to the end.
He has given us life.
He has shown us kindness.
He has watched over our lives.
He cares for us!
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