Job 42:10-12

(10) В¶ And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. (11) Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and everyone an earring of gold. (12) So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

See how the LORD turned his affliction into joy. Believers in JESUS should never lose sight of GOD'S power, and GOD'S promises. The deepest afflictions are but the seed-time of a joyful harvest. To a child of GOD, there is no one event of his life but what the LORD is directing that event to good. JESUS is everlastingly pursuing the invariable object of his love concerning them. Doth a kind and affectionate earthly parent constantly pursue, without any departure from that plan, his children's good? Well then may we suppose that JESUS, whose wisdom and whose love are both engaged for this one purpose, is always doing that which shall ultimately accomplish it.