“He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.” Job’s sufferings left him feeling like a dethroned king. God had taken from him his earthly royal robes and crown, leaving him to sit on an ash heap. What a humiliation, going from the highest to the lowest. No matter which way he looked, he saw the destruction of his life. He felt all was gone and that all hope was taken away. That he could never recover his loses.
But Job found it was not “double or nothing,” but double for nothing. When his respectability and honour were laid in the dust, and his property, health, family, and friends’ esteem subtracted from his life, at the end of his problem, surprisingly, there was an addition, “The Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.”
God wanted to teach Job that when the vine has been stripped bear of all its fruit and foliage, there is still the loving, caring, Husbandman standing nearby! The Lord had taken away Job’s fading glory and corruptible crown. But replacing them with His eternal glory, which never dims; and incorruptible crown, that will never perish.
When God takes from us something precious, He replaces it with something twice as good!
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