The Value of Nothing

“Job scrapped his skin with a piece of broken pottery as he sat among the ashes.”
-Job 2:8

Job lost all his possessions. Everything that his world called wealth, he had lost completely. It surprised me when I came across this verse, why would Job trash a piece of pottery to scrape boils?
Was he tired of the images of his former wealth?
Was he angry?
Maybe he found more connection to a broken pot than a fixed one.
Maybe.
Just maybe. Job had lost his sons and daughters. Job had lost his wealth and now his health. And rather than cling to the few possessions that he had, he decided to cling to God. While Satan had taken everything, he had not taken God.
So what do you have left? What do you have lingering inside of you? Have you lost something? Maybe it’s not even a possession but you’re lacking in an identity?

God is all you have. When you have God, losing things hurts. Death, disease, and bankruptcy will leave you with pain. But know the value of having nothing but God.