daily java

Daily Java:

O God, grant me these two things,
      and then I will be able to face you.
  Remove your heavy hand from me,
      and don’t terrify me with your awesome presence.
 Now summon me, and I will answer!
      Or let me speak to you, and you reply.
Tell me, what have I done wrong?
      Show me my rebellion and my sin.
Why do you turn away from me?
      Why do you treat me as your enemy?
Would you terrify a leaf blown by the wind?
      Would you chase dry straw? (Job 13:20-25 NLT)

This is exactly how you feel when things happen to you that do not seem fair.

And life will weigh you down like an anchor around your neck at times. All you want to do is defend yourself.

You say to God, you promised that you would be with your people. You point out the passages where God tells his people that all of the nations will look at them and see blessings from being in him.

You come to a point where it seems nothing else bad can happen, then something else does.

What does it mean? Does it mean that God doesn’t love you? Why is it that he cannot keep these things from happening? Are you not faithful? Are you not his child? Did he not call you?

And yet thing after thing happens until your life is a shambles.

The book of Job was written to show that sometimes things happen anyway, and are not due to something we did. Sometimes things happen.

But even though Job had all this happen to him for no good reason, he still says, But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and he will stand upon the earth at last. And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God! (Job 19:25-26)

No matter what happens, and there are a lot of unpleasant things happening right now in my life, he is still my God and I will always serve him.

And I know he stands.