THE COMPLEXITY IN THE SIMPLICITIES
“The tents of marauders are undisturbed, and those who provoke God are secure— those God has in his hand. “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you.” Job 12:6-8 NIV
Job was a man that had known the privileges and comforts of life, and one day trials unbearable to man hit his life. His friends insisted it was a result of some hidden sin he may have indulged, therein kindling God’s wrath.
Chapter 12 brings a reality that can only sit in the heart of a man that knew God intimately: the rigid accusations of Job’s friends were oversimplified applications of God’s justice that portrayed Him as unfaithful and unjust.
As believers, we will also encounter very many mysteries that may completely challenge our understanding of God’s will and sovereignty, but we learn from Job that humility before certain mysteries is more faithful than confident, incomplete and rational answers we may come up with.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. We only see in part, we only prophecy in part but in His time — He makes all things perfect. Hallelujah!
Prayer: My Father, I thank you for this word. I thank you for the grace you have given me to humbly present my requests to you, knowing that in due time you will comfort me as needed. My heart is not proud, neither does my mind attempt to rationalize mysteries for I know you are sovereign above all. May it be said of me that I clung to the lover of my soul in every ebbs and flows, because Christ in me strengthens me. Amen!
CI.
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• Psalm 73:3
• Ecclesiastical 8:14
• Isaiah 45:7
