My. Life. Has. No. Hope.
How did Job get to that place?If his calamities were laid in the balances,
His distress loomed heavier than his sin, like all of the sands.
How do we measure what happens to us?
Ten children buried beneath this hard life.
Grieving & carrying sickness unto death.
My. Life. Has. No. Hope.
Who will say to God: "What are you doing?"
Is there not anyone who can adjudicate?
No Mediator? Arbitrator? Judge?
There is no New Testament.
We know the Light.
Our Mediator.
Hold fast.
COME BOLDLY PRAYER:
"If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.” Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: Three Essential Prayers. Father, we are all so ruined by sin. And there is so much hope for that ruin for our Mediator ever lives. Father, we are so loved. And there is so much to live for even with ten buried children and I wince and weasel as I write for I know not that kind of ginormous pain. Father, we are in charge of so little. The fact that You do anything for us is amazing. Job could not remember his past---one of the greatest and holiest men on the entire earth. Seems like everyone forgot his past. Help us today to live remembering what You have done for us and how we got to the place where we are today.
PHOTO: The Quarries Lake in north Austin, Texas. Summertime. I put Romans 8:38 on a slip of paper in this message bottle and laid it on the shore. "Not this p.r.e.s.e.n.t. thing can s.e.p.a.r.a.t.e. me from the Love of God. Was struggling with the loss of material things---didn't Job? August 2010 we packed up everything we owned and put it in a 10X20 Public Storage unit. Haven't opened the storage door since.
Job's health was not good, his children were dead, and he lost his material goods. He wanted God to crush him. He knew he could contend with God but would not win. He had no hope for he future. He knew the coming of the Messiah was promised but he did not know the risen Son of God - Jesus Christ of Nazareth. How much different our lives are knowing Jesus Christ, Who is, Who was, and Who is to come.
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