LESSONS FROM JOB #16 – I WILL TRUST GOD – Job 12-14
"Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Even so I will defend my own ways before Him. He also shall be my salvation, for the hypocrite could not come before Him." (Job 13:15-16)
Job still does not have the whole picture. He thinks that what he is going through is from the hand of God. Job rightly believes that God is in charge. Job declared, "With God are wisdom and strength, He has counsel and understanding" (12:13), and then he lists some ways that God is in control. Even though Job questions God and wants to defend himself before God ("I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God" – 13:3), still he has not lost his faith in His God. I think that God understands when we question and even want to tell Him what the score is. He knows our humanity. But the important thing is to keep that basic foundation: I will trust Him when things don't go the way I think they should, because God is God. That is living by faith.
Love, Dad
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