The Follow Up Talk

Slowly, I've been working my way through Lysa Terkeurst book,  It's Not Supposed to be This Way  and would highly recommend reading it. I love the concept of dust  that is discussed to describe our lives and how God is a Master Potter and works with dust -- works on us and our brokenness to make something new and better! Today I was reading my Bible and Moses' prayer in Psalm 90 was a very cool connection to most of what I have been reading. I wanted to share a short segment that I highlighted and my prayer that goes with it. Psalm 90:3, 12, 14-17   3: You return man to dust and say, “Return, O children of man!” 12: So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. 14: Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 15: Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil. 16: Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power

This morning I was reading Job 42 and a series of other scriptures that gave encouragement to trust that God will restore you after your period of suffering. Job, of course, is a pinnacle example of this. After Job suffered, God blessed him with more wealth and with a lot more children and allowed him to live 140 more years- allowing Job to see the next 4 generations! While reading this chapter I was struck by verses 10-11 . 10: And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.  11: Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold. After reading this I thought: "Where were these siblings and others, before the Lord restored Job's riches?" Did these people