Last evening, God focused my attention on the final chapters of Job – 38 through 42. In them, He makes it abundantly clear that we, His creatures, really haven’t a clue as to how powerfully omnipotent is our God.
Even after nearly 50 years walking with the Lord, I am still unable to grasp the truth that God is in utter and undiluted control of every affair of life. He orchestrates every circumstance in every moment of my every 24 hours – from the big things that affect my health to the mundane situations such as who I meet in the supermarket.
That was His lesson to me last evening as I read those chapters in Job. Then this morning my routine took me to Matthew’s gospel. Here are the last verses of chapter three:
“After being baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and lighting on Him, and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.”
When I turned the page to chapter four, I stopped at the first verse:“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil."
Isn’t that an amazing thing? Just moments earlier, the Father called Jesus His beloved Son, in whom He was well pleased. The next thing we know, Jesus is in the wilderness enduring nearly a month and a half of demonic testing.
The point? As was true with Job, it is futile to try to figure out why we experience fiery trials. We ought only to be like him when he announced, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.” (13:15)
And as was true with Jesus – with whom the Father was well pleased – those who follow Christ should not be surprise by our own wilderness testing. We ought only to seek to be like Him, knowing that the Father is also well pleased with us as we walk in obedience to the Savior.
No comments:
Post a Comment