When we are hit with loss after loss, heart-wreck after heart-wreck, disappointment after disappointment, it more than ticks us off—it is soul-crushing and spirit-breaking. (Let us keep it real, shall we?)
But still. When we are deliberate in our choice to still walk with GOD (fully), still trust God (fully), and still rest (fully) in the sovereignty of who God is instead of who we are, God takes note. It is like how our teachers made notes of our behaviour in class as teens and kids. If we were talking while they were teaching, they took note and would let our Mom or Dad, or Aunt or Uncle, or Grandfather or Grandmother—whomever was our elder—know that our behaviour needed to improve.
God is no different. He is always watching. Always accounting for how we are moving through this life. Even in hardship.
In Job, I was astounded this morning re-reading Chapter One because I had forgotten that Job had sons and daughters plural and that he had camels, and in one day, God allowed all of that to go away. Can you imagine losing all of your children in a single day and the animals for your transport and food? I had read Job Chapter One before ages ago, but God reminded me of Job’s way of resting and trusting in God today:
Job 1:17-22 (ESV)
17 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “The Chaldeans formed three groups and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” 18 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, 19 and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
20 Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. 21 And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”
22 In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.¹
God knows it is not easy to not be upset, to not curse, to not yell, to not have an attitude with God and what you are going through, but if you came across this today, God’s Child, there is a reason. Trust that. God is calling you to higher, to refinement. Will you trust and rest in who God is?
Notes (References, CMOS Format)1. “Job 1:17-22 (ESV),” Job, Bible Gateway, accessed March 22, 226, https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job%201&version=ESV.
