OUR GLORIOUS HOPE

“Surely I spoke about things I did not understand, things too wondrous for me to know… I had heard reports about you, but now my eyes have seen you.”
Job 42:3b, 5 (CSB)

I cannot even begin to imagine the suffering that Job went through. And to add to his suffering, Job’s wife and friends were worse than no help to him! Through all of Job’s suffering, it seemed that God was distant from him, that God did not care, or that God had provoked Job’s suffering. Job seriously questioned the Lord and wanted answers—which anyone could understand for a man in his position.

When God did respond to Job, Job did not get the answers that he had been asking for. But when God showed up, Job no longer needed answers.

Some of us face really difficult situations that are not fair, and that no one would want to face. It is OK to question God and express all of our feelings and emotions toward Him. But these afflictions, no matter how difficult, are temporary. I cannot wait for that day when our eyes get to see our God and Savior, when “God himself will be with [us] and will be [our] God” (Revelation 21:3b), when “He will wipe away every tear from [our] eyes. Death will be no more; grief, crying, and pain will be no more, because the previous things have passed away” (Revelation 21:4).

I cannot wait for that day when He makes all things new!