Daily Thought

Today’s thoughts from Job 32-37

 

What option did Job miss? I’m not sure he missed any, he sought out council, he sought solitude, he defended his actions, he pleads for mercy, he listened to accolades, he listened to condemnation. None of these were wrong, If anything Job did more right than wrong, and he definitely never turned his back on his God.  Who could fault Job for the reactions he did have and who wouldn’t try what ever possible to lighten the suffering load that Job was undergoing.  But there are trials in life that cannot be resolved fully by man.  It doesn’t mean that we don’t work toward resolution; it means that there won’t be resolution till God is ready for us to receive that resolution.  Many of us struggle with this.  We believe that regardless of our trials and struggles we can over come them, we can solve the issue.  While I will agree that in many of those instances God uses us as part of the resolution, I am more certain than ever that some trials are resolved in God’s time and in God’s way.  No matter what Job did, his suffering didn’t end by his accord.  We are about to learn of Gods faithful restoration of Job. 

Job put his faith, his very life in the hands of God and allowed God to use him as God saw fit not as Job saw fit.  Job let his faith control his life, not the other way around.  It is much to often that we as believers mold our faith to conform to our lives, our schedules, our desires, and then are perplexed when we feel God is calling us to do something we don’t want to or is just to unreasonable.  We justify ourselves by saying look at all I have done, I did this, I gave up this, I sacrificed this.  If we are to be a people who truly lives by faith, then that must be a faith that is without restriction or schedule. It doesn’t mean you will always understand, it doesn’t mean that your life will be full of fairness, but it does mean that you will serve a God and be in relationship with a creator that is in total control.  Even as Job challenged his circumstances, he never forgot about the awesome power and faithfulness of his King.  After all part of living by faith is believing that God is in pursuit of a relationship with you that draws you to him for eternity.  If that is the end, the trial will be sustainable.