Is God focused on us? Job 14

Job 14:15 (NASV)

“You will call, and I will answer You;

You will long for the work of Your hands. 

Job 14:15 (NIV)

You will call and I will answer you;

you will long for the creature your hands have made.

Job wanders in this chapter from false doctrine to good doctrine and back again.   Remembering that Job had no Scripture to turn to during this time of suffering (this was the first Biblical book written) we should be amazed at His good doctrine and perhaps cautious at the false doctrine produced from his friends and, at times, Job, himself.   But, in the above verse we see that Job leaves the thoughts of his depravity and his mortality and instead looks to the end of his life.   He sees a time when God can change him (vs. 14).  He looks at a time when God will look upon him as the person created by God.   Job knew, despite the original sin in mans life that was carried through to him, that God would and does look at each of His created beings and longs to redeem them and longs to work in their lives.   Note what the Psalmist says in 138:8

The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me;

 your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever.

Do not forsake the work of your hands.

In this passage we see the longing for what Job says God will do: Not forsake the work of your hands.   Knowing that God has us in His hands and is shaping us and molding us to the image of His son is special.  We can rejoice that despite the sickness, loss and pain (Job's current life) God "longs" for the work of His hands.  God doesn't cast us aside.  We are the focus of His creation and the purpose of His Son's death, burial and resurrection.   God is calling us and we must answer Him for we are the focus of His work in the redemptive story of Christ.