One Thing After Another

"And there came a messenger unto Job...While he was yet speaking, there came also another...While he was yet speaking, there came also another...While he was yet speaking, there came also another."

I remember the old timers saying, concerning their trials: "If it's not one thing, it's another"; or, "It's one thing on top of another"; or, "It seems it's just one thing after another." Paul referred to them as, "Sorrow upon sorrow." 

Any of the above quotes could have applied to Job. On four different occasions, on the same day, one messenger after another brought the old patriarch bad news. Actually, it was devastating, heartrending news! As my granny would say, "It seemed more than a soul could bear."

But if we skip ahead and read the conclusion of the story, we find the final message from God after all his sufferings, we might say it was the great finale. We're told the Lord doubled-up, so to speak, on all the blessings he had previously enjoyed. WHAT A GOD WE HAVE!