Trials Have An End Date

Job’s trial turned and terminated when God spoke and vindicated Job. Job prayed for his friends, then Job triumphed. Every trial and trouble has an end date.

So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. Job 7:3 (KJV)

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; Job 29:2 (KJV)

According to these verses, his troubles went on for months. Some Bible scholars and researchers have said that Job’s trial lasted nine months.

Just know that what we go through won’t last when we go through with the right attitude. When we have an attitude of trust towards God even when things don’t seem fair or when we hurt. When we trust God over circumstances, feelings, and what the enemy says and does, we can know our troubles will come to an end.

Job apparently suffered for nine months, or the time it takes to carry a child to full term. Don’t abort what God wants to do with you during a trial. Trust and love God. Worship Him through it, and you’ll go through it the right way. In the end, God will vindicate you.

And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job. So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord commanded them: the Lord also accepted Job. And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold. So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. He had also seven sons and three daughters. And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch. And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. So Job died, being old and full of days. Job 42:7-17 (KJV) emphasis mine

Job’s trial ended when God spoke. God rules over all, even over us, the devil, trials, people- everything. God vindicated Job and restored him, giving him double for his trouble (which the devil caused and not God). The devil is a troublemaker. God is a problem-solver.

So know that trials have an expiration date. This too shall pass. Your trouble will not last. Praise God through the problems, and watch Him fulfill His promises and plans for your life.