New Revie

I just finished a week of fasting last week. That's not to speak to my spirituality but rather to my spiritual inadequecy. I felt like I had been stetched, pushed to my limits and then some. I don't often feel like God doesn't have a grip on things but I was starting to feel that way so I thought it would be good to try and get a new perspective on things.

What I found was shocking. It wasn't that God wasn't working in my life; it's that He was working behind the scenes and I couldn't see what was going on. Why was it that everything I tried to do to make situations better only seemed to make them worse. Why was it that everytime I would seek understanding there would be no answer. Perhaps I was asking the wrong questions. Let me rephrase that. Perhaps I was asking the right questions in the wrong context.

Take Job for example. God didn't judge him for asking why all those horrible things happened to him but rather God sharply rebuked him for questioning what had happened outside of his control. In other words Job was questioning God in the context of eternity. Like Job we have no control over what God does outside of time (which is where God lives by the way). God has given us the ability to make choices inside time. But sometimes things happen in our lives that are beyond our control and we must realize that those things have eternal emplications and purposes.

Questioning God in the context of time is seeking wisdom, understanding, and insight so as to know God and walk in His ways. Questioning God in the context of eternity shows pride and a lack of trust in the goodness of God. It is when we do this that disbelief creaps in and if it takes hold our thinking will become jaded by doubt.

Faith and trust are activated in our lives when we trust God from eternity into time. "Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done on Earth just as it is in Heaven. When we trust God from eternity into time we will recognize the goodness of God in every circumstance and trial.

Then like Job we will be able to say, "up until now I have lived on rumors of you, but now I know you for myself." Job 42