Monday, January 11, 2010

Job 23:8-10 "Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold."

Here Job is answering after Eliphaz had told him that he was unrighteous and God was judging him. Job just said that he wanted to he wished he could talk with God and take his cause before Him that he might know why this was happening.

Here he says that he doesn't feel like God is with him. He feels like God has left him and he is all alone. Job feels like God has abandoned him. But in spite of this in verse 10 he says I know that God knows my way. Even though he could not see God working in his life and everything told him that God had abandoned him. He knew that God was still watching him and taking count of his life. He also knew that God was trying him and would bring him forth as gold.

Job had faith in God that even when everything seemed to say that God had abandoned him. He did not lose faith. He believed God was there and that there was a purpose in what he was going through.

In my own life I want to have this kind of faith. Even when things don't seem true I want to believe God just for the fact he has said it. What God says is true even though it might not seem like it. I will believe God.

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