Having full trust and confidence in Job, God suggested, “Have you considered my servant Job?” ( Job 1:7-8). Satan roamed all the earth looking for others to join his army of demons. Job’s story begins with a heavenly debate between God and Satan. Perhaps, he read the book of Job to soothe his grieving soul. Luther himself had to be restrained from re-entering the collapsing inferno.ĭuring the long slow recovery from overwhelming grief, Luther suffered deep depression but recalled Bible promises of ‘songs in the night’ “Where is God my Maker Who gives songs in the night” ( Job 35:10b NKJV).Time marched on and Mr. Luther’s mother and father-in-law escaped but his wife and sons perished. One night a nearby neighbor awoke and watched the house go up in flames where the Bridgers slept.

In 1910, Luther took his family to visit the in-laws near Lexington. The Lord blessed him with a wonderful wife and three precious boys. Afterward, he developed a reputation as an effective pastor and church planter.

North Carolina native Luther Bridgers began preaching at age seventeen while attending Asbury College in Kentucky. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the Lord’s end, inasmuch as the Lord is full of pity and compassion and tenderness and mercy” ( James 5:11 Amp). “You know how we call those blessed (happy) who were steadfast.

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