“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 toward. Questions are not defiance, they are the beginning of knowledge and that originates at the Throne of God.
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Gretchen