Today’s devotional is written by Dory DuBose Hatchett of Clarkesville
God is so unfathomably good.
“Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning. “Job 11:17
Recently, I’ve allowed trials, trauma, and tragedies to have greater influence in my life than I really would like to admit. But, through everything that’s occurred, I now understand how easily events like these can dominate one’s entire focus.
I used to look at Job- the guy famous for having every imaginable bad thing happen in his life, other than his own death- and wonder why he suddenly stopped putting his trust in God. At the start of his trials, “In all of this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrong doing.” Move down a few verses, “After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.”
Yes, he’d been through more tragedies than I’d bet any of us could imagine, but having such direct fellowship and communication with the Lord Himself, why did he all of a sudden become so downcast, negative, and untrusting towards a God he knew he could put his trust in? Why didn’t he just have faith that God was in control of his situation? That everything occurring in his life was for a purpose greater than his own understanding?
And, while I used to sit hypocritically shaming Job for his lack of faith, I understand now that when we put our focus on only the negative things occurring in our lives we become susceptible to forget that God is a just God, with plans greater than we could ever think or plan for ourselves, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. (Isaiah 55:8)
He is faithful… Always.
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8)
The God who delivered Job from all of his sufferings, the God who parted the Red Sea in order to deliver his people from the Egyptian army, is the same God capable and willing to deliver you from any present trial. WHATEVER his form of deliverance may be.
The past few months I’ve felt “distant” from myself, 0vercome by negative thinking that had previously never crossed my mind, and negative people who convinced me my thoughts were just. Through recent events and God’s all encompassing love, I understand that through every difficulty, God is present. He makes “life brighter than noonday” and “darkness become like morning.”
I’m blessed beyond what I even deserve, and praise God for all that He is, was, and will be.
