God is the Answer
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“If only I knew where to find him; if only I could go to his dwelling! I would state my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments” (Job 23: 3-4, NIV).
Everything had gone wrong in Job’s life. He’d lost his children, his possessions, his business and even his reputation as a righteous man. Throughout all of this, God was silent. “If only God would tell me why, it would be easier to take.” Have you ever said that?
But is this really what we need most? Would an explanation really help us with our pain?
From experience I know that we don’t need answers as much as we need a comforting presence. We need the assurance that we’re not alone. We need hope that we’ll get through this and good will come out of it eventually.
This became very real to me when I thought I’d lost everything I valued in life. “But you haven’t lost me,” I heard God saying. I knew then that I had what I need to get through it. Many times God does not give us answers, He gives us Himself — for He Himself is the answer.
Job discovered this. “My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you,” he exclaimed. “and I repent in dust and ashes.” When he saw the greatness of God, Job wondered, why did I ever doubt?
Dear Father, I want to trust you even when I don’t understand. I believe that you are lovingly and thoughtfully putting together this life-package for me. I want to know you in a deeper way. Amen.
Questions: How do you respond when it seems you have lost all that matters to you? What is it that one needs most in life?
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I really can’t answer the first question as I’ve not experienced ‘all’. I have experienced ‘almost’ but not ‘all’. With the ‘almost’ I responded the only way I knew how, went into my comfort zone and locked the door, put my hands over my ears and closed my eyes. After many years of doing this, the exhaustion took hold and I found myself outside my comfort zone, alone, afraid and spent.
This ‘one’ needed her Father and after a whole lifetime without, my comfort zone shattered, the Lord was there, hand held out and showed me the way, the truth and the light.
This lesson went right to the heart of me> i ASK SO many questions and I realise that I miss so many things by the worry this causes and sucks me in to a spiral of never answered worry What you said about Jesus giving himself during those times of worry, the penny just dropped, about the gift of Jesus in our lives. I remember this now daily I REMEMBER HIM and I know that HE breaks the chain of worry and destructivenss We are truly blessed
I know that God is always with me and that is comforting. But sometimes it would be nice to have answers. This past year has had some very difficult moments. Earlier this year, a member of my extended family committed suicide. In the months before that, all of us were praying very hard for God to break through this depression and lift him out of it. Instead we had tragedy. Then just this week, we had a beautiful, young girl in our community raped and murdered by a horrible person. I know for a fact she was a Christian. I am so glad I have God in my life, but it would be nice to have answers once in awhile. Why?
Oh, this was very good and uplifting. We just experienced a house fire and have had to move from our 5500 sq ft home to our 1800 sq ft home. My husband and I have seven children that I home school so space, to me is a necessity—or so I thought.
I’ve seen God’s hands work in many, many, miraculous ways in my life. And yet again He doesn’t disappoint me. I have been so calm, unafraid because I know with all my heart that He loves me, and He is with me guiding me. However, what has been puzzling me is “Why.” I think. He’s even answered that though. Now I’m wondering, not too much, but I am wondering where is this leading because I know He’s at work doing something.
What your article made me realize is that the reason I’m feeling so much peace is because I do have HIM, and it is such a great feeling! Thanks a bunch :)
Juy that scripture reached my hear. It went right to the core like yesterday’s lesson did. I live away in another country far from friends,, my fiancee and family and it’s hurting… Am at a place i’ve never been where the devil is trying to weigh me down with sadness, loneliness and depression. I need your prayers. He is always there to hear us when we pray. In Isaiah He said i will leave you but in a moment i will gather you up. And if years are like days to Him, surely a moment is nothing…Therefore He will never leave me, He will never leave you nor forsake us.
God is our ever present help in time of trouble. He promised us he will never leave us nor forsake us. We don’t understand the reasons why many times but we know who holds tomorrow. We are believing that God will show us the right open door he has for us. His ways are higher than our ways and his thoughts deeper that our thoughts.
Amen ladies … I so agree. To know that He is there and will help us through whatever it is… that He will provide.
Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
Thanks be to God!!
Yesterday in the church,our pastor while preaching said some thing that made me worried and i started asking questions like God are you there for me,all i wanted was the assurance that He is there and while praying,i realy felt His presence which answered my question.I felt so satisfied because His presence means, He is always there for me and knows all that i am going through. Isaiah 60:22b says I am the Lord,in its time I will do this swiftly(NIV).The Lord bless us all.
AMEN Juy!! I need to repeat scriptures myself!
“Many times God does not give us answers, He gives us Himself — for He Himself is the answer.”
BEAUTIFUL words that are Oh, SOOOO true!! It really isn’t answers we so much seek, it is God’s comforting Presence we need to be aware of for SURE. And, He knows this, and understands this. He is meeting me in a wonderful way in something I am going through right now. He ALONE must be my strength. And, He IS. That is for SURE!
I had to focus on God. As a friend said. . .rest in God . . . . sit at the feet of Jesus. Proverbs 3: 5 & 6 came to my mind and I would repeat it to myself: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto your own understanding, in all your ways acknowlege Him and He will make your paths straight.