Where is God?
“Where is God?” we often ask.
The book of Job asks the same question.
Job did not expect to find God close at hand when his troubles multiplied.
For him prosperity signified God’s presence!
Ultimately Job had to admit that
-In health and prosperity he did not know God at all!
It was through suffering that
– Job experienced God personally!
Like Job
– We prefer a God who follows our rules of fairness.
From a human point of view-
– it seems grossly unjust that it is not ours to know ‘why?’
But God answers us!
‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways…As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.’ Isaiah 55:8-9.
Through Job’s story comes-
– an opening in the heavens,
– a window for those of us who struggle with suffering!
His suffering had nothing to do with his own righteousness before God.
Neither was his suffering an excuse for him to forsake God’s ways.
God answered Job out of the whirlwind.
The Lover of Job’s soul spoke words through Job’s suffering that
– Job could not previously understand,
– things too wonderful,
– things that he did not know!
God was precisely where Job least expected to find Him!
And where we will find Him, too!!
(PR)