you can't always get what you want...but if you try sometimes...you'll find...you get what you need
chatting with a friend today I commented on one of my own desires and texted her that I understood that I can't always get what I want.
so later I opened my master "books of the bible list" and I saw that job suffered great personal tragedy in spite of being a good man. and sure enough -the prologue states that job was blameless and upright -to the extent that he made offerings just in case one of his children had sinned the night before...
one verse that stood out to me was after job's second test (the devil was on him because he claimed to God that job only had such integrity because job was so blessed). he was visited by friends because he was so very very afflicted with sores and he was cursing the day he was born -his friend pointed out:
job 5:17
Blessed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
and this seems harsh. really kind of harsh to think about being reprimanded by God. by our father of fathers. but really -why shouldn't he correct us? and why shouldn't we take our hardships as a call back to the straight and narrow?
I'm not sure that's exactly what eliphaz the temanite/job's friend was getting at but that's what I'm taking out of these first few chapters tonight.
more tomorrow / YAWN
As Pastor Stafford said about a month ago, "Through the crosses that we bear, our tribulations in life, we grow closer to Christ." When I was listening to that message, I could hear God say, "Come unto me, all you who are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Rest unto your soul. Amen to that.
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