When Job was feeling down, his friend Zophar told him to repent and said to him, "Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him, if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent, then you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and without fear. You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by. Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning. You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety." Job 11:13-18 (NIV)
Job had insisted that he was innocent and his friend was encouraging him to admit his sins and repent. While Job was not perfect or sinless, the Bible says that the was "blameless and upright, and on who feared God and shunned evil". Most of us would not measure up to Job, but the advice that his friend gave him would be very appropriate for us.
We should ask God to forgive us for our sins, devote our lives to Him, put away our evil sinful ways, and stop focusing on our problems because God is bigger than all of our problems. No matter what is going on in our lives, our God is the reason that there is hope.
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