Job.
All I ever wanted
All I could ever need
Not a single question answered
So now I can believe
He pierced the holiest shadow
Stepped from behind the facade
Now I know the only answer
is the hidden face of God.
- Michael Card.
The Hidden Face of God
Sometimes God doesn't gives us the answers that we want to hear. It was the same case when Job pleaded with God to answer to all the charges of his 'unrighteousness', a view held by his 3 friends that he was getting punished for his sins.
Yet God did not answer Job in terms of Job's 'why?!' and 'How long?!'. Many anti-religious would call Job's God tyrannical, but to those who walk closely with Him, we know that God is sovereign and in control that He doesn't need to explain why He does certain things.
In an act of sovereignty God even demanded Job to 'brace himself like a man, for he will be questioned, and he shall answer'. Job couldn't. The following two chapters in Job would go on to become the most painful, most beautiful description of divine sovereignty of the Creator's power. It must have pierced Job's heart, his questions all burnt up as he 'despise himself and repent in the dust and ashes'. In a supreme act of worship, Job put his hand over his mouth, an act of humility and denial of any 'rights' (if there was even any to begin with) that we can claim to have.
Instead of the tyrannical God most secularist would paint Job's God, we see in Job's case the most beautiful expression of both sovereignty and love. His account reveals a God that knows what is happening, has complete control over the 'unfortuanate' situation of Job, and that God wasn't some far off religious entity that is pleased by set rules or adherence to a certain form like breathless idols. Job's God was an intensely personal creator, a gentle Father who understands that sometimes His children needs a little testing and painful molding so they might become better and grow, for we all grow the most when we are in pain. It wasn't answers that Job needed, it was God's holy presence, which would suffice him in any given situation. This teaches us that sometimes we don't have all the answers, yet all we need is God's presence, His Paracletos, as we find faith in our hearts to do the right thing.
All I could ever need
Not a single question answered
So now I can believe
He pierced the holiest shadow
Stepped from behind the facade
Now I know the only answer
is the hidden face of God.
- Michael Card.
The Hidden Face of God
Sometimes God doesn't gives us the answers that we want to hear. It was the same case when Job pleaded with God to answer to all the charges of his 'unrighteousness', a view held by his 3 friends that he was getting punished for his sins.
Yet God did not answer Job in terms of Job's 'why?!' and 'How long?!'. Many anti-religious would call Job's God tyrannical, but to those who walk closely with Him, we know that God is sovereign and in control that He doesn't need to explain why He does certain things.
In an act of sovereignty God even demanded Job to 'brace himself like a man, for he will be questioned, and he shall answer'. Job couldn't. The following two chapters in Job would go on to become the most painful, most beautiful description of divine sovereignty of the Creator's power. It must have pierced Job's heart, his questions all burnt up as he 'despise himself and repent in the dust and ashes'. In a supreme act of worship, Job put his hand over his mouth, an act of humility and denial of any 'rights' (if there was even any to begin with) that we can claim to have.
Instead of the tyrannical God most secularist would paint Job's God, we see in Job's case the most beautiful expression of both sovereignty and love. His account reveals a God that knows what is happening, has complete control over the 'unfortuanate' situation of Job, and that God wasn't some far off religious entity that is pleased by set rules or adherence to a certain form like breathless idols. Job's God was an intensely personal creator, a gentle Father who understands that sometimes His children needs a little testing and painful molding so they might become better and grow, for we all grow the most when we are in pain. It wasn't answers that Job needed, it was God's holy presence, which would suffice him in any given situation. This teaches us that sometimes we don't have all the answers, yet all we need is God's presence, His Paracletos, as we find faith in our hearts to do the right thing.
posted by DoMiniC at 3/12/2008 09:41:00 AM
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