GodReflection: Life with the unfair
For the past decade and a half I’ve made sure to read annually Old Testament Scripture’s Book of Job.
In prior times I had wrongly assumed Job’s story was about suffering. It is not.
The unfairness that brought about Job’s campfire experience is only the background that builds toward God’s dramatic rehearsal of His impeccable integrity.
Like me, human Job sat among human friends and bemoaned his hurts, pains, and losses. His friends (unlike mine) gave him wrong answers while God let him rant, rave, and question his unfair treatment.
When God shows up He addresses Job in machine gun fashion to defend His integrity throughout a rapid fire of one hundred twenty-nine verses.
Only once does He slow down to ask Job a question.
The Lord said to Job: “Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him who accuses God answer him!”
Then Job answered the Lord: “I am unworthy—how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth. I spoke once, but I have no answer—twice, but I will say no more.” Job 40:1-5
Here is what I think.
When my humanness collides with the unfair my kneejerk reaction is to run to God to rehearse the why question.
Is it too hard to believe that Perfect God—the Creator who is Wise, is Love, is All Knowing, and is Justice, just might understand my encounter with the unfair?
Is it possible that All Seeing God might just see ways in which I will grow more like Him because I’ve bumped head-on into the unfair?
The best that I can tell, at the very nature of God’s integrity is His desire for me to learn from ALL THINGS that He might transform my heart into perfect alignment with His.
Is it possible when I demand of God that He answer the why question do I not question His integrity?
Do I not question His power?
As I go through life I have a distorted and limited view of the world at best.
I cannot see the horizon from Divine perspective.
When I finally stand in the full and complete presence of God Almighty, I fully expect my only reaction to be a timid whimper as one who just had all of the air sucked from my preconceived understanding.
If I can utter anything at all, the most correct thing I can say is, “I am unworthy—how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth. I spoke once, but I have no answer—twice, but I will say no more.”
I repent from having ever questioned your integrity.
Stay tuned.
Dr. Gary J. Sorrells – A GodReflection on Cover My Mouth.
Gary@Godreflection.org www.MakeYourVisionGoViral.com
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