Job 30:31 (NASBStr)
“Therefore my harp is turned to mourning,
And my flute to the sound of those who weep.
We all have "great expectations." We all dream of great things for ourselves. We all desire wonderful things for us and ours. Yet, that may not be God's plan for us. In chapters 29 and 30 we see such a contrast between how it was, how we wanted it to be and how it actually is. Job, in his mind, is living in the past. However, in his body, he is living in the present with much pain and sorrow. We, too, can make the same mistake. We live in the present, with all the pain and suffering, but we want to compare it to the memories of our past or future. There are times in life when our harp will play mourning and our flute the sound of weeping. What enables us to endure such a sound? It is faith in the fact that even though we are in pain we will be redeemed (Job 19:25). If we only read these two chapters of Job we might be left with the wrong impression of his view point of life. We take a snapshot here and it is not a good one. But, there are snapshots of our lives that are not good. God does not hide that from us in the book, or in the Bible. God does not promise to keep us from the famine but to carry us through the famine (Psalm 33:19). There will be a chapter 30 in all of our lives. That is what faith brings us through. If we were to stop reading her we would miss the end of the book and God restoring Job to his former glory (like he was in chapter 29). We tend to stop in the chapter 30s of our lives when our harps and flutes turn to dissonance. Through faith, hold on to the One who redeems. He carries us through chapter 30s.
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