"If only I knew where to find him; if only I could go to his dwelling!" Job 23:3 NIV
You know what amazes me about Job? It's his heart toward the Father. It makes me want to examine my own heart as I think of the every day trials I face.
Think back to what Job went through. He was stricken with festering leprosy, he lost all of his children, and yet in his absolute distress his heart's cry was, "If only I knew where to find him; if only I could go to his dwelling."
My heart would cry out for healing. My heart would cry out for restoration. But Job did not cry out to be healed of his disease, nor did he cry out to see his children restored. His cry was first and foremost that he could find his savior; that he could be near him in his dwelling.
When we suffer trials of many kinds we often find ourselves resentful, or discouraged because we have been stricken. But Job, even in his suffering, turned toward the father and longed to be where he could be found.
I learned the hard way. When every hope was stripped from me I learned to press into the Father first. And you know what I found when I did? I found that nothing else mattered other than his presence. I found that no other hope offered to me even came close to comparing to the presence of the one and only who could rescue me.
Oh, that my heart would remember this lesson. Oh that I wouldn't fall back into selfish thinking and cry out for whatever I deem best, but rather that I would press into my Lord and let him minister to me as I wait in quiet submission.
Only By His Grace,
Billie
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