Gerald’s Week 10 Blog
578 words by Gerald Smith
These are the following people whose blogs I decided to read and I felt that each of them was awesome and unique:
1. Son Kim
2. Keri Crump
3. Jada Etienne
4. Kimberly Gravel
5. David Hewlett
6. Paisley Robertson
7. Henry Tran
8. Shanta Williams
9. Whitney Green
10. Holle Ford
After reading the blogs of these students I was quite impressed with each of the project ideas each of them had and I wish everyone the best of luck in completing their projects successfully.
In the Book of Job, the reader is introduced to a character by the name of Job who is a faithful believer of God after he has been blessed with many riches. In heaven, God and his angels are having a meeting, when Satan makes a bet with God saying that Job only believes in God because of the things he has given him. God disagrees and makes the bet with Satan saying that Job will remain faithful even in times of despair. Immediately, Job loses his servants, children, livestock, and wife, and when it seemed that he would curse God he doesn’t. Seeing that it would take more than depriving Job of his riches, Satan asks God to allow him to cause bodily harm to Job and he them insist that Job “will curse God.” After being covered with boils, Job still doesn’t curse God, but rather deals with the boils by cutting them open and sitting in a pile of ashes. Job is even told by his own wife to curse the Lord and die. Now as one continues to read the book of Job one may realize this man’s abundance of faith for the Lord. After everything his ripped from his life, he remains a true believer that God provides everything that is good for those that have continuous faith. In terms of relating the book of Job to the rebuilding of New Orleans it is quite simple. The people of New Orleans were not necessarily blessed with many riches, but they were rather people that had the necessary thing for survival; food, shelter and a family. When Hurricane Katrina arrives, it wipes out all of those things that people once had, separating families, and for some it seemed to be the end of living. Personally I’d say that God caused, or rather allowed the Hurricane to occur to test the faith of believers here in New Orleans. For some, it may have been a rocky road to remain faithful, but God’s goal was to obtain the hearts of followers show them that everything they once had or have now can be taken away and at any moment, it can be taken away. God allowed the Hurricane to occur to show to those that maintain faith in him will soon be blessed “more than first.” The rebuilding of New Orleans may seem to be a slow process, but if the residents of New Orleans remain faithful of the Lord he will defiantly bless them greatly.
When reading Psalm 22, we are introduced to a man who is crying out for God because he feels that God has forsaken him, but in essence, God doesn’t place anything on us that we cannot bare. This man states that he has gone through a lot but God doesn’t forsake any of us he allows us to go through things that may later on better us.