"God Alone Knows the Way to Wisdom" Job 28-29; Acts 13:1-25

Job 26:1 - Job facetiously answers his friends: "Well, you've certainly been a great help to a helpless man." People out there are getting by with murder---with illusions of security. Job 28:23 "God Alone knows the Way to Wisdom." Job 28:28 "Here it is! Fear-of-the-LORD----that's wisdom , and Insight means shunning evil." Am I shunning evil or am I slapping its wrist like it was a naughty thing to do? I first read the quote from Abraham Heschel when we were going through a hard time back in F.W. "God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake." 66 LL says the world of Christendom does not want to believe that. "Am I willing to die to my blessings as my source of life?" Dead to self. Alive to God. LORD make us all come alive to You as our Only---One and Only---Source of Life. My desires for righteousness, 2 Thes 1:11-12, are good and right but how to get there in this life must be reckoned with. I am not on the path for God to relieve all my suffering. I hadn't seen Larry in a while and saw him in North Carolina. The first words out of his mouth to me:---"We aren't here to talk about your cancer, Bev. You may meet Him before I do (Larry had cancer too and he is actually with Him tonight). We're here to talk about the Beautiful God in you that is using that struggle to uncover a rest in you. We're here to talk about God and what He's up to in you." Our experiences are not the means to find God---they are the context in which we find God. PHOTO: Rockport, Texas. Walking on the shore, thinking about God and how we can even come close to understanding an all-present, all-knowing God.