(to relieve pain and rise above challenges dealt in life)
Prayer:
Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.
Additional Information:
The name “Jabez,” means to grieve or to be sorrowful. The difficulty in child labor prompted Jabez’s mother to name her child Jabez. Can you imagine a mother having such a hard delivery of a baby that she would give the child a name equivalent to “a pain in the rear?” The name was a memorial to the difficult child labor, but it also was to mark the kind of life Jabez was to lead—a sorrowful painful life full of evil. In the eyes of the world Jabez was a born loser. His name was forever to be a reminder of how he entered the world. In the eyes of the world he was marked for life. How could a man with such a dogged name rise above it. Jabez’s name rises above all the other names. He rose above the world’s view of him. He rose to a place of honor. The Bible doesn’t say he did it without difficulty. The writer wants us to know that he rose to a place of honor in spite of his difficulty.Jabez’s life became a contradiction of his name as God enlarged his life. Life does not consist of having a good hand at cards, but of learning how to play a poor hand well. Have you ever been dealt a perfect hand of cards? All you have to do to win is lay your cards on the table. Some would like to stack the cards so they would be dealt a perfect hand each time they play. But the challenge to become a good card player is learning how to play a bad hand well.
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