Niels Prip – Blog

   There is a very short description in Job 1, revealing Job’s position as a father and as a covering for his household.

Job 1:⁴His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. ⁵When the days of feasting had completed their cycle, Job would send and consecrate them, rising up early in the morning and offering burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, “Perhaps my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

   Interestingly, even as my own children have become adults, the burden still rests on me to some degree, to guard over them, as with Job, ” just in case they have sinned against the Lord”. I confess that at times, I have thought that once they were grown up, they would be on their own, that I did not have to worry about them anymore. Then I was reminded of how, long ago, the Lord had shown me this verse, and that this was once my prayer for them.

  Those of you who may stumble across this humble post, take on the prayer of Job for your family and children. When they are young, we are ever striving to raise them up in the ways of the Lord. When they leave the nest, continue to pray like Job.

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