Job 8:22 - "their house of cards collapsed." C.S. Lewis talks about living in a house of cards. In A Grief Observed, Lewis wrote that if my house collapsed at one blow, it was a house of cards. My house of cards collapsed 4 years ago with one blow only for God to take that house built on sand and rebuild it on the rocks. Lewis talked about if his house was a house of cards, the sooner it was knocked down the better---and only suffering could do that. "God always knew that my temple was a house of cards." C.S. Lewis.
Job 9:13 How can mere mortals get right with God? Job 9:20 God wins, hands down. So what's the point?
Job 10:2 "How does this fit into what you once called 'good'? Giving me a hard time---how is that good, God? Job, like the rest of us, believes "God should relieve his struggles and replace it with rest. But God uses struggle to uncover a rest beneath the struggle that no anguish can destroy." 66 LL. Job's foolish understanding of the road to find real life is not right. My understanding is what I have to deal with this day, this set of circumstances. Foolish Understanding! So throw the anchor over in the midst of my storm and it will hold true. There is an Anchor in my raging storm. I just want the storm to go away instead of a sure and steady Anchor in my mess. Remember Crabb's quote in the First Love Letter---"You must now live between Anguish and Hope."
Job 9:13 How can mere mortals get right with God? Job 9:20 God wins, hands down. So what's the point?
Job 10:2 "How does this fit into what you once called 'good'? Giving me a hard time---how is that good, God? Job, like the rest of us, believes "God should relieve his struggles and replace it with rest. But God uses struggle to uncover a rest beneath the struggle that no anguish can destroy." 66 LL. Job's foolish understanding of the road to find real life is not right. My understanding is what I have to deal with this day, this set of circumstances. Foolish Understanding! So throw the anchor over in the midst of my storm and it will hold true. There is an Anchor in my raging storm. I just want the storm to go away instead of a sure and steady Anchor in my mess. Remember Crabb's quote in the First Love Letter---"You must now live between Anguish and Hope."
What beautiful faith in Job pushing through his suffering. Even his friend alludes that Job has small beginnings (whoever called thousands of sheep and donkeys and ten children SMALL?) and his latter days would be great. Prophetic. Meaningless to Job at the moment. Job has not forgotten about God. His flesh just doesn't want to face all that suffering. I can't wrap my brain around losing all ten of my children on the same day. Job says in 9:28 that he has become afraid of his suffering. Wouldn't he be tempted with---what next? It is a "land of darkness and deep shadows" for Job. Even though he knows so much about God, Job recognizes that God passes him by and Job sees him not (Job 9:11). And the same for me. May we not miss you, Our Good God, passing us by this day in our suffering be it great or small.
PHOTO: California. Who knocked down my house of cards? God did. And it was good. Very good.
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