Job’s reply to Zophar was dripping with sarcasm. He had reached his limit of advice from friends
who thought they knew more than he did. They
had not told him anything he had not already considered…and he was hurt to the
core that they could not see his innocence.
In his deep frustration and pain…trying to process the hurt
his friends inflicted on his heart… the physical pain of the boils that covered
his body….and the mental anguish of grief ...he managed to speak a great truth…Only
God holds the key to true wisdom and power.
The truth of the matter was that none of them understood…because
God had simply not revealed it to them yet. Job held fast to the knowledge that
God loved him…and if he needed to know…it would be revealed in God’s own
timing.
Perhaps Job had heard the words of Solomon in Proverbs 25:2….
“ It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the
glory of kings.” Or maybe he had read the visions Daniel recorded in Daniel
12:9… “He replied, "Go your way, Daniel, because the words are closed up
and sealed until the time of the end.”
Sometimes God makes us wait…and holds back knowledge that we
might not be able to process fully in his love.
We were told in Genesis 2:17… “ but you must not eat from the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will
surely die." ….but Eve ate it anyway.
She convinced Adam…and they both saw their nakedness and hid from
God. That knowledge got them kicked out
of the perfect place for them to live…and separated them for God till he could
send his son to save us all.
Deuteronomy 29:29 says… “ The secret things belong to the
LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our
children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.” Jesus pretty
much summed it up in John 14: 31… “ but the world must learn
that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me. "Come now; let us leave.” Job simply did not need to know
that God was proving to satan …that Job
loved him more than anything….and nothing he could inflict on him could make
that change.
How awesome that God knows us better than we know
ourselves. He gives us just the right
amount of knowledge to process what we need to do what he called us to do….and nothing
more. Even though Eve and Adam messed up
in that garden and bit off more than they could handle…God sent his son to fix
it and make it all right. He made a way for us to be joined together once again…and
feeds us daily with all that we need to prosper and grow in his love.
Father…thank you for hiding the things from me that you know
my human heart can’t deal with. And
thank you for letting me ask why…even though I know in my heart that the answer
will be hidden until we meet face to face.
Help me to wait on your perfect timing…and accept the things you have
revealed…and embrace them to do the work you need me to do. Help me to invite
the Holy Spirit into my life full force…so that it can strengthen me in the
times I do not understand. Amen.
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