"I Know My Redeemer Lives" Job 19.25 

This is a tremendous, emphatic and prophetic declaration!  It was Job's affirmation of faith. What have you been affirming in your life? Have you made an affirmation of faith recently?

This statement was not the result of Job feeling exuberant. Things had not suddenly taken a great turn for the good causing Job to be full of excitement and hopeful anticipation that the worst was over. 

Just a few paragraphs earlier (19.14-19) Job had recounted how bad things had gotten...relatives had left him, friends had gone away, people dependent upon him acted as though he was a stranger and they didn't know him, his employees wouldn't answer him, his wife said his breath stunk, his brothers couldn't stand him, little kids made fun of him, those whom he loved most dearly had turned against him.

This was a statement of will. Job had determined that there was only hope in God and some day he would "see Him with (his) own eyes -"  Job seemed to swell with hope because of his conviction that "my Redeemer lives, and that in the end He will stand upon the earth."

We affirm a great many things in the course of our daily grind. We affirm that certain things have significance. We affirm that some things have priority. We affirm that situations, people, events and things have varying degrees of value according to our subjective appraisal. We then proceed to live each moment, each day in accordance with our hierarchy of value.

Our value system then determines our course of existence and therefore our real value, or lack thereof, to our fellow man. G. Campbell Morgan once said, "Our relationship to God creates our value to our fellow man. Our value to our fellow man is the test of our relationship to God." Morgan said this in a statement regarding the benefit of Christianity to humanity based upon Philemon verse 11, "...who formerly was useless to you, but now is useful both to you and to me."

What are you affirming by the way you are going through your day today? How are you affirming your faith? 

I'm going to sit back in this chair, close my eyes, take a deep breath and say, "I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end He will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see Him with my own eyes -"