Those who dwell in my house, and my slave-girls, count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight. I called my servant, and he gave no answer; I must beg him with my mouth.
Job 19:15-17
My breath is hated by my wife, and I must beg to the sons of my mother’s womb.
Job has described his current status here. Many senior citizens live in the same condition today in their houses in the world. I know one person who after her retirement, is living alone. Lifelong her husband did not give her a pie for the family expenses. She has no clue where or how he spent all his earnings.
Because of he misunderstandings between the husband and wife, the children were also affected. Her daughter hates both the parents. If at all the mother goes to visit her any time, she will drive her away. Her sentimental attachment towards her grandson makes her stay there a couple of days. The daughter treats her like a slave.
We know why Job had to face such a miserable condition in his life. It was a test for him. But when it happens in our lives, we will come to ask why?
Job is a model for us. In Job’s time, there was nobody to interpret the Lord’s ways of dealing with human beings.
Now we live in Jesus Christ’s time. Jesus who is living in us through the Holy Spirit, teaches us, instructs us, about everything that is happening in our life.
If at all we have ears, let us listen.
‘……… Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Jehovah’.
Jer 17:5
Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah, and Jehovah is his trust.
Jer 17:7
In life, God is the only source whom we can trust. All other things we see in this world might desert us any day, any time. A child who is born in a home trusts its parents for anything and everything. He is dependent on his parents, relatives, friends, teachers and others whom he comes across in the society,
But at any time, in its life, the exact time nobody knows, all the trust it has placed on human beings would be scraped away. Before that time comes, slowly it has to learn the fact that, God is the source and giver of everything in its life. His parents, friends, relatives, education, wisdom, riches, position, contacts, etc. everything is a gift from God to Him. Even for his life, he is indebted to his Creator.
The shift of his trust from people to God should happen even when they are under the custody of their parents i.e. before 18 years of age. They should be thoroughly taught about this.
Children who are educated in this, by their parents, slowly and steadily in the right way, at the right time, achieve their aim in life.
Prayer
Let all the souls put their trust in God. Only in God. God’s glorious throne is a strong fortress to all who trust Him. Surrender all of them to God and His providence.
–Sr. Angelica AOJ