THE ALL SUFFICIENT, ALL KNOWING ALL LOVING FATHER – JOB 10 – a continuation…
July 18, 2010 Leave a comment
In Job 10, where we have Job, basically saying ‘God I hate my life, why do you punish me like this, is it your intention to kill me?’, an important lesson is to be learnt. It is this, that the great God Almighty is all sufficient and has those who have come into adoption as his children are in the palms of his hands; we are the ‘apple of his eye’ as Zechariah chapter 2 puts it.
The lesson to be learnt is that we must not always assume on God’s character, we know through the benefit of knowing the background to this man’s story, that God had not left him, God was not punishing Job for any ‘iniquity’ as Job puts it.
We see Job, having misunderstood what was going around him, and the reason he did not understand what was going on was because he was not God, he did not have the ability to see the end from the beginning, he did not have the ability and the wherewithal to know the ins and outs and the crevices of what was taking place.
This is a lesson: God is God, and for them that know Him as Father, as King, as provider, as protector; he is all sufficient, he knows what’s going on and we must trust him as supreme Lord over all creation.
So we must know that sometimes we simply DO NOT KNOW the reasons and in those times, IN THOSE VERY TIMES, seek out the extra opportunity to place your faith in the all great and sufficient Lord. Listen to the Apostle Paul in his letter to an early Christian church in Rome.
‘What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— who is at the right hand of God,who indeed is interceding for us.Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,
“For your sakewe are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more thanconquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.’ [Romans 8: 31 - 39]
It is indeed in these times of sorrow and hardship that we are manifested as ‘more than conquerors’, hardships come, but we know that our Father is great.
‘for he has said, ”I will never leave you nor forsake you.”‘ [Hebrews 13:5] – HE NEVER NEVER WILL!
‘Who is this King of glory?
The LORD, strong and mighty,
the LORD, mighty in battle!
Lift up your heads, O gates!
And lift them up, O ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
Who is this King of glory?
The LORD of hosts,
he is the King of glory!’ [Psalms 24: 7 - 10]
THAT’S THE KING WE SERVE! – HE IS MORE THAN ABLE
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