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I Will Wait Until My Change Comes 

Job 14:14 

In The Spirit-Filled Daily Devotional by Dick Mills dated June 25, there is a fabulous word for us to grab a hold of.

“All the days of my hard service (literal Hebrew translation: Warfare, spiritual battle and force-excursion) I will wait, till my change comes.” Job 14:14 NKJ

This verse contains the noun form of the Hebrew verb: chalaph (khaw-laf’). Here, Job is saying that despite his miserable condition, he is looking for a change of circumstance. E.W. Bullinger translates this phrase: “...I will wait until the time of my reviving comes.” The New International Version renders it: “...I will wait for my renewal to come.”

Unfortunately, Bible scholars have often assumed that Job was speaking of his dying. They read about death in the context of the passage and mistakenly concluded that Job’s words deal with that subject. HARD SERVICE (or as the King James Version has it, “appointed time”) is a military expression relating to engagement in warfare. All the time Job was waging the good fight of faith, he was not waiting for death, but for a divine visitation. He was expecting revival, a renewal, a change for the better. That change came when the Lord intervened to turn Job’s captivity and rewarded his faithfulness with a double portion of all that he had lost in the hassle.

This can also be our happy conclusion. We too are engaged in the fight of faith. Our warfare against the powers of darkness goes on and on, and we look for a change, a renewal, a revival, a breakthrough. The Lord will intervene for us just as He did for Job.

Job expected changes in his circumstances. They came to him in double measure. We can expect the same. Get ready, get ready and get ready. Change is coming for the better.