This week Pastor David taught that Job took His deep pain before the Lord and laid his challenging questions at His feet. Job was not reprimanded by God for his hard questions. Instead, through Job’s experience, we see that we are free to lament, grieve and cry out to God. However, we are not free to run away. God wants us to remain and to trust Him, even as we question Him—so wild!
Like Job, as we remain with God, we gain the revelation of His glory and our faith is made strong, rich, and deep. We are refined like gold is refined by fire. Gold comes when our solution to the turmoil we face is to trust our heavenly Father. The work of trust is chasing away the doubts, chasing away the fears, and chasing away the half-realities that plague our peace. Find comfort in knowing God is listening to every word of yours. He is up to something and He’s going to use the pain to help you know Him. So don’t stop pursuing Him; continue in the activity of trust, for the reward is great and eternal.