When You Can't Find God
Jerry Watts
Job 23:1-10
Every time this country goes to war, sadly, we always find ourselves with a list of unaccounted for service people. We call these people ''missing in action'', which we have shortened to MIA. Regardless of the reason(s), they cannot be found and accounted for. Have you ever had your world to seemingly turn 'upside-down' and when you prayed, you couldn't seem to find God and felt like He was MIA? When you prayed, your prayers didn't seem to get above the ceiling and the skies were overcast with brass. I submit this was Job's dilemma. Let look at him.
We have read the words of THIS ONE MAN IN BIBLICAL history whom we KNOW was God's pride and joy. In the words of scripture, Job was a man of integrity, who feared God, and turned away from evil. He was the greatest man among all the people of the east.'' That truth is affirmed when God begins to brag on Job to none other than Satan. God tells Satan to consider, behold, and take a look at the one He was most proud of and pleased with. Satan, revealing the heart of mankind in his fallen state, says, ''Let me at him.'' This seems to be a truth which permeates our world. If someone is living large for the Lord, there will be someone close by who desires to pull them down.
I have often wondered what it would be like to be a person who God would ''brag on?'' Admittedly, I may be the one who rivals Paul as the ''Chief of Sinners'' and God's poster boy of how NOT to live, but I surely would love to be the one about whom God's would say, ''Look a there, that's person who's doing it right, my way, and I'm proud of him.''
Have you ever given serious thought to what that might take? When it comes to our children and grandchildren they have to do NOTHING for us to brag on them. In fact (and sadly) we brag on them no matter what. Because of human emotionalism, we tend to put our blinders on with them. However, I can take you to some parents who I have heard lament and s ...
Jerry Watts
Job 23:1-10
Every time this country goes to war, sadly, we always find ourselves with a list of unaccounted for service people. We call these people ''missing in action'', which we have shortened to MIA. Regardless of the reason(s), they cannot be found and accounted for. Have you ever had your world to seemingly turn 'upside-down' and when you prayed, you couldn't seem to find God and felt like He was MIA? When you prayed, your prayers didn't seem to get above the ceiling and the skies were overcast with brass. I submit this was Job's dilemma. Let look at him.
We have read the words of THIS ONE MAN IN BIBLICAL history whom we KNOW was God's pride and joy. In the words of scripture, Job was a man of integrity, who feared God, and turned away from evil. He was the greatest man among all the people of the east.'' That truth is affirmed when God begins to brag on Job to none other than Satan. God tells Satan to consider, behold, and take a look at the one He was most proud of and pleased with. Satan, revealing the heart of mankind in his fallen state, says, ''Let me at him.'' This seems to be a truth which permeates our world. If someone is living large for the Lord, there will be someone close by who desires to pull them down.
I have often wondered what it would be like to be a person who God would ''brag on?'' Admittedly, I may be the one who rivals Paul as the ''Chief of Sinners'' and God's poster boy of how NOT to live, but I surely would love to be the one about whom God's would say, ''Look a there, that's person who's doing it right, my way, and I'm proud of him.''
Have you ever given serious thought to what that might take? When it comes to our children and grandchildren they have to do NOTHING for us to brag on them. In fact (and sadly) we brag on them no matter what. Because of human emotionalism, we tend to put our blinders on with them. However, I can take you to some parents who I have heard lament and s ...
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