Job 42: 1, 2 “Then Job answered the Lord and said, ‘I know that You can do everything, and that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You.’”
Dear God,
I give thanks for every provision and each and every gift that come my way from You; The Almighty, and all powerful God.
Too many times we are inclined like Job, to question Your wisdom and doings, forgetting that You are not a finite person that makes errors or does wrong. Also we can be slow to recognize or admit that many of our adverse happenings are the end result of our own previous words/ actions that in Your wisdom have been allowed to play out to their end, for our own learning and growth. Forgive me please if I have any such sins, unrecognized or confessed by me, so I can make the changes necessary.
Job later recognized after God had spoken to him. It is fair to say, how dare he (or we) question Your wisdom, when he/we are without knowledge of how and why the entire universe was constructed. Anything we think may have happened is only supposed, because none of us were there at the time.
Job in his ignorant talk about things related to You was basically ‘spouting off’ because he did not like the nasty things happening to his body, and how badly his friends were treating him. He did not know Satan had said, ‘no one would stay true to God, if life went bad for them.’ It is so wonderful however, that Job never did abandon or give up loving his God, as You knew would be the case.
Instead of speaking out of ignorance about Your motives or actions, I will follow Job, because I now realize as Job learnt, that we do not really need to fully understand things in and of the world that are too wonderful to grasp to be able to love and follow You with all our mind and heart. Now days we have more facts than Job to pin our belief about Your creative works; as science finds out how some of Your creation actually functions; instead of following a belief based on supposition and theory. The scientists still never have made a cell or element of it, and so have not put any man made cells together, so that it could be said any person on earth has created life. They have of course cleverly used cells already made by our Creator.
As with many of the songs of the Psalms, I must praise for Your love and care of the life of creation, of which I am a part. Despite only being able to understand what has been revealed, there is fully enough for me to believe in and trust You in all things.
I also wish to serve You truly and with my whole heart all my days, with increasing reverence and understanding.
Amen