Originally posted in a previous blog on October 18th, 2006.
I have been listening to God today. Through thoughts of Job and thoughts about how God works … I’ve come to a point where I realize that when we say we trust God to take care of our needs His way in His time … that doesn’t mean that everything is necessarily going to be “good” as we see it. It doesn’t mean that something we view as a “need” will be taken care of immediately. It doesn’t mean that things will not go wrong (in our eyes). Let me try to illustrate.
Let’s say we come to the point where we need milk because we just used our last gallon or something. There’s nothing to say that we won’t go a week or 2 without milk. Does that mean God isn’t watching out for our needs? I don’t think so. He is still in control.
Let’s say that you forget to write something down in your checkbook and over-extend yourself. If a certain amount of money doesn’t come in before you have bank fees and other charges, does that mean God isn’t watching out for our needs? I don’t think so. He is still in control.
Just because we may go through troubles at times does not mean that God has forgotten that we have needs. He is still in control even if we are homeless.
We preach and teach that God uses trials to grow us. Why, then, should we believe that we will not encounter these trials. What Job went through was bad stuff. But God was still in control.
I’ve always heard it preached that a righteous man named Job went through these trials and suffered through no fault of his own … but why? Was it just a demo for the rest of the world? Was it just for us to have something to say to those going through trials? Or was it because Job had something to learn about God that He wasn’t learning in his present situation? Maybe God said the things he did to satan in order to entice him to attack Job in order to teach Job something new about Himself.
Bottom line … God is in control. There are things that are going to happen that are hard to live with. There are going to be times of struggle. Our responsibility is to learn to trust God completely through it all. And by trusting God, I mean maintaining the good attitude as well. Through the good and bad alike. What better way to glorify God than to be a positive spirit in the midst of troubling times.
Go with God,
Donald B
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