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Job 29 verses 1 through 5 and Job again took up his discourse and said,

Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God

watched over me, when his lamp shone on my head and by his light I walked through

darkness as I was in my prime when the friendship of God was on my tent, when the Almighty was yet with me,

when my children were all around me.

I'll pause there, but these verses just keep going on as Job is looking back

when he was experiencing much better days when his children were around him, when he was in his prime to use his

language there, when physically he was healthy and not afflicted with sores all

over his body, when he had his family happy around him and even

possessions and you keep reading on the chapter and it talks about how his

reputation was intact and so many other things and at this

point he had lost it all and he's looking back at those days when it seemed like

God's favor was upon him in all these different ways

and things in his life were going so well and now it's the complete opposite. And Job is saying it feels like God is not watching over me.

It feels like his lamp is not shining on my head and I'm not walking by his light. I think there's a sense in which most of us can

identify with this. Most of us can think back to days when things were going better maybe than they are now.

Maybe in small ways or maybe in really big ways like Job is describing here.

And it's actually good to look back and to think about God's grace and

God's goodness and God's faithfulness in times in the past and to praise him for

those days and at the same time to let that looking

back to those days in the past be a reminder that God will not stop watching over us, that his lamp will shine on our heads,

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