I Know That My Redeemer Lives

Easter Old Testament Reading: Job 19:23-27

You’ve heard of Job — the guy who lost it all.

✖️His livestock? Gone.

✖️His servants? Dead.

✖️His children? All of them, dead.

Then his own body betrayed him with painful sores covering every inch. His only relief was scraping his wounds with a broken piece of pottery.

You might wonder: Did he deserve this? Was God punishing him?

No. Job was faithful. Though imperfect like all of us, he walked righteously. He even made sacrifices for his children just in case they sinned.

When his so-called friends showed up, they bombarded him with toxic theology:

“You must have done something wrong. Good people get good things. Bad people get bad things. Your suffering proves your guilt.”

But in the midst of this unbearable pain — physical and spiritual — Job declares something remarkable:

“I know that my Redeemer lives. And in the end, He shall stand upon the earth… in my flesh I shall see God.”

This isn’t confidence you can earn. It’s not something you achieve through good behavior or perfect choices.

Job wasn’t confident because life was easy — his life was literally falling apart.

His confidence came from God’s Word breaking into his darkest moment.

Look around. Everything seems broken — relationships, families, bodies, even churches. Because broken people make up broken churches.

Faith isn’t about figuring out what we don’t know. It’s trusting what we do know when everything else is uncertain.

It’s holding onto God’s promises when nothing makes sense.

Your hope isn’t based on your circumstances.

It’s founded on Christ’s resurrection — an objective victory that cannot be taken from you.

We don’t guess. We don’t wish. We know our Redeemer lives.

Contributor Tim Droegemueller is Senior Pastor at Living Faith Lutheran Church in Cumming, Georgia.

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