Answers, please.

Job 42:1-6 (The Message):

 Job answered God: "I'm convinced: You can do anything and everything.
   Nothing and no one can upset your plans. 
You asked, 'Who is this muddying the water,
   ignorantly confusing the issue, second-guessing my purposes?'
I admit it. I was the one. I babbled on about things far beyond me,
   made small talk about wonders way over my head.
You told me, 'Listen, and let me do the talking.
   Let me ask the questions. You give the answers.'
I admit I once lived by rumors of you;
   now I have it all firsthand—from my own eyes and ears!
I'm sorry—forgive me. I'll never do that again, I promise!
   I'll never again live on crusts of hearsay, crumbs of rumor." 

I try to remember the lessons of Job when I approach God frustrated by my lack of understanding.  I can rest in God's faithfulness regardless of my questions.  Peace says the answers will come or the questions will leave.  Either way is fine.  In God, end from beginning, all is well.

It took some time for me to learn that.  My craving to understand would resist God's peace.  The revelation I seek will come eventually.  The truths of God are not hidden from me but for me.  Job 42:5 in the Amplified version of the Bible reads (Job speaking to God), " I had heard of You [only] by the hearing of the ear, but now my [spiritual] eye sees You."  It's a humbling honor to see the God of love and peace.  Confusion and misunderstanding melt away.

I love this life

Copyright 2012  Leah Lambert Smith