Your Latter End Will Be Better

Your Latter End Will Be Better

Job 8:7-10 NKJV

[7] Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would increase abundantly. [8] “For inquire, please, of the former age, And consider the things discovered by their fathers; [9] For we were born yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow. [10] Will they not teach you and tell you, And utter words from their heart?

    

Bildad is responding to Job’s lament over his suffering. In this speech (Job 8), Bildad argues that God is just and that Job’s suffering must have come because of some wrongdoing. His point in verse 7 is: “Job, if you return to God and live righteously, He will restore you. Even though your beginning was small, your end will prosper.” So in Bildad’s mind, this was conditional prosperity — “if you repent, God will restore.” Though Bildad’s theology was incomplete (because Job’s suffering wasn’t caused by sin), the principle he states about humble beginnings leading to greater ends under God’s hand is biblically true.

    Bildad is  painting a picture of divine enlargement — God taking something that appears tiny and multiplying it beyond imagination. This verse captures one of God’s consistent patterns in Scripture: that God delights in small beginnings. Abraham started as one man — God made him a great nation. David was the youngest shepherd — God made him a king. Jesus was born in a manger — yet became the Saviour of the world. The Church began with 120 praying believers —today,  it has become a global body.

     God’s way often starts with the seed before the harvest, the mustard seed before the tree, the cross before the crown. You may be at your beginning, don't worry. Your latter end will greatly increase. You have to hold on and follow God's patterns. In the end, Job greatly increased. You will too. The devil is not bigger than God. Good morning.