"Though He slay me, yet I will hope in Him"
You read through these chapters...and you're just torn. What? God isn't like this. Satan is doing this to you, not God. You make God sound terrible. And although at the end God says Job is wrong about it, it's still incredible that Job can say all this, and then say, "Though He slay me, yet I will hope in Him." And although I could go on saying how amazing Job is, all the glory really belongs to God. You hear that you cannot do anything without Him, but I admit that for a long time I was like, "God didn't make me or help me eat, God didn't move my hands to play piano," etc and I knew that I was probably missing something, but I couldn't find an answer so I arrogantly thought that I could do things on my own. Well, turns out I'm wrong and that hey, God could take away the air, and I wouldn't breath anymore, much less run. And hey, if He let the earth crumbled in for some reason, I would be no more: no more eating as well. So I really can't do anything apart from Him, and neither could Job. Because God is amazing :) and in control of absolutely everything, even though we like to think we can be in control.
"I can do all things through Christ who strenghtens me." phil. 4:13
ReplyDeleteThis is a verse that I've heard, and read a thousand times. But I never really took it to heart. There are just a million things that happen in our life times, that we feel as if everything is going way over our heads, and honestly, we get totally out of breath. How long do we hold our breaths? We hold it ...for however long we don't trust GOD with our lives. And we just try to live our lives on our own.
And when good things happen to us, some of us fail to remember that it was GOD, who has stuck with you, all your life. Not yourself, not friends ...and it seems weird to say this, but not even your family. Its all GOD.