I Would Wait

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Hello, my friend… so glad you're with me today. This is By God's Call — day 150, I Would Wait.

"If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come." Job 14:14.

This question has echoed since the beginning of humanity, and Job puts it into words with an honesty that cuts deep. He is in the middle of suffering, surrounded by loss, and his mind goes straight to the deepest question there is: if I die, is there anything after? Is there a return? Is there renewal?

And what moves me deeply is that Job doesn't have the full answer. He lived before Christ, before the resurrection, before any full revelation about life after death. He's asking in the dark — not because he lacked faith, but because the light we have today hadn't yet been lit for him. And even so, look at what he chooses to do with that uncertainty: "all the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come."

Notice the word he uses to describe present life: service, hard labor. Exhausting. He isn't describing an easy existence — he's describing a life of constant effort, of carrying a weight day after day. And even so, he chooses to wait. Not give up. Not surrender to despair. Wait — with clenched teeth, with shaken but present faith — until renewal comes.

And that word, "renewal," carries something deeper than momentary relief. Job isn't waiting for one good day in the middle of bad ones. He's waiting for real change, a transformation, something that restores what death destroyed. He didn't have a name for it. But he sensed that it existed.

And here, my friend, is where the whole story of Scripture converges in a way that moves me every time I think about it. Job asked this question centuries before Christ came into the world. He waited in the dark for something he couldn't fully name. And then, centuries later, Jesus died — and rose again. In flesh. In bone. Not as metaphor, not as a vague spiritual concept, but as historical, physical, visible fact. Job's question — "if I die, shall I live again?" — received a concrete answer: yes. Because Christ died and lived again. And whoever is united to Him will live too.

Are you tired today, my friend? Are you in the middle of your own "hard service," carrying a weight that seems to have no end in sight? I want you to hear this: Job's waiting was not in vain. And neither is yours. We live after the resurrection. We have what Job could only hope for in the dark. We have certainty, not just blind hope.

So today, before breakfast, name one weariness you're carrying — physical, emotional, spiritual. And then pray, thanking God because Job's question has already been answered. Christ rose again. The renewal he was waiting for has a name, has a face, and has already happened once — and it will happen again, for you.

Stay close to God. Wait — then celebrate the resurrection. I'll see you tomorrow, my friend.