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“Trouble Won’t Last Always”

By Pastor Charles Locklear

Job 14:1 “Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth
like a flower and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. Job 14:5
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed
his bounds that he cannot pass.”

These words were uttered by a man named Job, whose life He sets forth the fact that all men who are born of a woman,
was turned upside down by a series of calamity after calam- which of course would include all men, regardless of race,
ity. Three of his friends came to visit with him and in their creed or standing in life, can expect that in this life we will be
discussion with Him, strongly suggested that his suffering was faced with trial, trouble, and tribulation. Job was a man whose
a result of some unconfessed sin in his life. Their suggestion to life was blameless, upright and who feared God and made a
him, as a way to move forward, was to confess his sin before determined effort to stay away from anything regarded as evil.
God, that God might restore him to a place of fellowship and In fact, even the Lord himself gave him the distinct honor of
favor once again. In his defense of himself, Job explains that being regarded as one of a kind. And yet, even with the ap-
suffering is common to all men and that no one is exempt from plause of both heaven and earth, both man and God, he was not
the possibility of calamity and suffering. Job presents the fact, exempt from the trials and tribulations that are present in this
that suffering is not just a possibility, but an absolute certainty. world. It was a common belief in Job’s days, that if a person

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