Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule:
Job 41-42
Saturday:Jeremiah 42-46
Sunday:Luke 5-6
Throughout the course of his painful interrogation, Job had been greatly humbled by God. His heart has been emptied of pride before God. Yet it had been in this lowering process that Job’s faith had been turned upward to God with a new attitude. Hearts full of God are always bent low before him in humility. Man is never more devoid of true grace than when he is trying to elevate himself before God. And he is never more growing in grace than when he humbles himself before the Lord.
That is exactly the place where Job had finally found himself. He was, at last, made a humble man, bent low before the throne of God with nowhere to look but up. Either we humble ourselves, or God will humble us. This had been a painful lesson for Job to learn. Ever since his friends began accusing him of wrongdoing, he had been panic-stricken. But God put Job flat on his back, only to look up into the face of God. In that moment Job knew everything was going to be well with his soul. Job saw God as the sovereign Creator of heaven and earth. With a new awareness beyond his previous understanding, he realized that God was greater than all his trials. God was above and beyond his ability to grasp or understand.
God still had not told Job why he was suffering. All Job knew was that God was there with him, and that God alone was enough. Job didn’t have to know why. All he needed to know was who. Can you relate to this? Are you going through a trial and struggling to see behind a curtain? God could explain everything to us about his workings behind the scenes of our trials. However, we wouldn’t be able to understand it. How can His infinite wisdom fit into our finite brains? All we need to know is that God is in control of our lives and that He loves us very much.
Maybe you need to come to that place in your life. If so, I urge you to stop your squirming and simply look up. Look up and see the face of God. When there are no answers, there is still comfort for your troubled heart. As we come to the end of the book, Job looks up and sees God in a new and fuller way.
Prayer Requests:
Personal
- Lord, please help me to be humble so you will not need to humble me
- Lord, please help me to trust your heart when I cannot trace your hand.
- Lord, please help me to rest in the truth that you are in control and that you love me.
Political
- Senator Ken Horn – District 032 – Frankenmuth
- Representative Pamela Hornberger – District 032 – Chesterfield
- Representative Gary Howell – District 082 – North Branch