Even If
Is your faith going to last, even if?
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. — Job 13:15
Years ago, I had a friend who I believed was a really close friend. We talked regularly. We spent time together. The relationship felt solid and genuine. But eventually our lives went separate ways, and over time it became clear that the friendship was not quite what I thought it was.
When the convenience was gone, so was the closeness. What I had mistaken for deep friendship turned out to be more of a casual one that depended heavily on circumstances staying the same.
It is a painfully common experience. And it raises a question worth sitting with.
Is that what we look like to God?
It is one of the most honest questions a believer can ask. When the blessings are flowing, when the prayers are being answered, the provision is clear, the health is good, and life is moving in the right direction, worship comes easily. Showing up is easy. Trusting God is easy. But what happens when the blessings stop? What happens when the prayer goes unanswered, the provision dries up, and the circumstances give every reason to walk away? That is where the true condition of our faith is revealed.
Job knew that place better than almost anyone in Scripture.
In a single day, Job lost his wealth, his children, and eventually his health. Everything that could be taken was taken. And the people closest to him told him to curse God and die. What God had given, God had allowed to be removed. And Job was left sitting in the ash heap of a life that no longer resembled what it had been.
And from that place he said something extraordinary.
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.
Not if things improve. Not if God explains Himself. Not if the blessings return. Even in the slaying. Even in the absolute worst of it. Job’s trust in God was not attached to what God provided. It was attached to who God is. And that is a different kind of faith entirely.
It is worth asking honestly, what is our faith actually connected to? If God’s blessings stopped today, would we still serve Him? If the prayer never gets answered the way we hoped, if the provision looks different than expected, if the life we believed God promised does not arrive on our timeline, do we stay?
Transactional faith says I will follow you as long as you come through for me. But genuine devotion says even if you don’t, I am still yours.
God is not looking for followers who are loyal only in the good seasons. He is looking for the kind of trust that has no escape clause. The kind that holds in the ash heap just as firmly as it holds in the abundance.
The blessings are real and God is generous. But He was worthy of our trust before the blessings came. And He will be worthy long after any of them are gone.
Would you still serve Him? He already knows the answer. The more important question is whether you do.
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God bless you Jared.