Me: Sometimes it is hard to trust.

Prodigal: Yes, but that is when we increase our faith.

This is from the book Job: A Man of Heroic Endurance by Charles Swindoll

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declare the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8-9). And so we say, with Job: “O, God, I trust You. I don’t know why I’m going through this. If there’s something I can learn, wonderful. If there’s something someone else can learn, great. Just get me through it. Just hold me close. Deepen me. Change me.”

Job asked, “Shall we accept good from God and not accept adversity?” Because he knew that God is God, someday He will make it clear. That’s one of the reasons I believe heaven will be such a delightful place. When we step into His presence for the first time we will be given the panoramic view, and then (and not until then) we will respond, “So that’s the reason! Now I get it!”

“It is easier to lower your view of God than to raise your faith to such a height,” writes a perceptive author. He then adds, “We shall watch the struggle as Job’s faith is strained every way by temptations to see the cause of his misfortune in something less than God.” God is totally and completely and absolutely in charge. If He wipes out every member of your family, He is in charge. If He ends your business in abysmal bankruptcy, He is in charge. If the x-ray returns and it couldn’t be worse. He is in charge. Please accept and submit to that teaching. How magnificent it is to find those who trust Him to the every end of this vale of suffering saying, “And may His name be praise. I don’t understand it. Can’t explain it. Nevertheless, may His name be praised.” That is worship at its highest level.

May God enable us to raise our faith to such heights rather than lower our view of Him.

Proverbs 16:8

Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org