“Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?” Job 39:1
Job: A man stricken with life’s deepest tragedies compounded by well meaning friends who believed he brought it all on himself with hidden sins he wouldn’t confess.
Can someone love and serve God with absolutely no expectation of receiving anything in return? Is it possible to achieve perfect faith and love in the midst of continuing tragedy? This is Job’s struggle. If God doesn’t come through there is no reason to continue on, yet total separation from God is THE HOPELESSNESS Job is seeking to avoid. Job in tremendous despair, questioned God, yet God didn’t count it as sin. It was the beginning of great faith.
We will never understand how God ordered the universe. He is a WONDERful, all knowing, all loving Creator of a WONDERful world. When you have questions, He is the first and only ‘person’ you should turn to. Questions are not defiance, they are the beginning of knowledge and that originates at the Throne of God.
Happy Weekend,
Gretchen
Mom and Dad, I love you Big!!!
I have questioned God so many times. I’ve told Him I would never talk to him again. And yet I would come back begging and fully understanding the words of Peter ‘to whom shall we go? For you have the words of eternal life.’ There is nothing on this earth that makes sense and has meaning without Jesus. There is no truth away from him. The truth of Christ, his beauty, humility, his deity and grace in comparison to our suffering and our questions is but the power of a teardrop up against the vastness of the oceans.
Love YOU!!!!