I ran across these verses the other day….Job 42:3-6.
You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?’
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.4 “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.’5 My ears had heard of you
but now my eyes have seen you.6 Therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes.”
Who am I to question God’s authority? Who am I to suggest alternative methods to what He’s asking me to do or to alter His timeline? After all, He is without time. He works outside this man-made structure of measurement. Job spoke these words out of a recognition of how wonderful God is. Earlier, he had lamented his state and wondered why God would allow him to suffer the way he did. Even though he refused to curse God, he still found himself unable to see God’s ultimate design for his circumstances and decided to complain about them.
In the end, Job realized his appropriate place is on his knees before the Almighty God. Sometimes we have to do the same thing: fall to our knees realizing God is God and we are not. I’m going to start doing that myself. I only pray on my knees when it’s something important, but maybe everything is important.
I’m also going to steal an idea from my cousin, Rob, and go on a bit of a TV fast. I haven’t really watched TV in about a week because of Eastern Camp, and I realized a few things about my spiritual life that need some cleaning up. I figure while I’m not really interested in any show enough to need to see it (I have So You Think You Can Dance on a recording schedule), I might as well see what an extra week of no TV will help me accomplish. Some goals include spending more time in the Word, reading a book, and being more dilligent with house work. We shall see what happens.
-j
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i love ‘so you think you can dance’! AHH! last episodes coming so soonnnn!!