![]() Doing a face-plant on the cement of possible death, I realized God had been a trophy on my shelf. There were several months of testing, fear, and stress. (I remember thinking eliminating stress was going to be pretty hard with news like that.)That very difficult time, turned out to be the best time of my life. I was thrown into a gamut of tests, and told to eliminate all stress. ![]() I went to the doctor only to find I wasn’t pregnant, something was not right with my heart. The year I turned 30, I thought I was pregnant, and I was so excited. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 5:20-21 The law came along to multiply the trespass. We can wait, and we can hope, even in the deepest suffering, because there is faithful love and redemption in abundance in the arms of our good Father. Yes, because of His perfect will and His unbreakable commitment to His people, to us.įor there is faithful love with the LORD,Īnd with him is redemption in abundance (Psalm 130:5–7). The answer to the question, Can we trust God in our suffering? is yes, because of His abundant righteousness. And His character, proclaimed by Elihu and written throughout the Scriptures, is steadfast and faithful love, justice, and abundant righteousness. In verse 23, we are told, “The Almighty-we cannot reach him-he is exalted in power! He will not violate justice and abundant righteousness.” God may be utterly other, higher than anything we can fathom, but He has bound Himself by His character. In 37:13 we read, “He causes this to happen for punishment, for his land, or for his faithful love” (emphasis added). Or rather, weather does what God wants.īut God’s majesty does have boundaries, lines drawn by His character and His goodness. We can read the radar, the charts, the signs, but at the end of the day, weather does what weather wants. ![]() It is, by its very nature, impossible to control. And always, their defense is simply this: weather is WEATHER. I write this after seeing our local weather-people get utterly destroyed on Twitter because they missed a forecast for snow. I write this while most of the United States is gripped by deadly freezing temperatures, the lowest in a generation. “He says to the snow, ‘fall to the earth,’” and “Ice is formed by the breath of God,” and “He saturates clouds with moisture he scatters his lightning through them.” The wild, untamable weather that, despite our most advanced radar and predictions, never does what we think it will-this weather is controlled by God, a testament to His sovereignty and majesty. ![]() So when Elihu describes the power of God, he talks about the weather. Like God Himself, weather is unpredictable, wild, and powerful. If He is King, and sovereign, and has dominion over everything, why has His faithful servant suffered so much? But toward the end of this book about suffering, these two truths stand on trial. He is indeed merciful, and He is the King. Today’s readings are about mercy and majesty, two perfect descriptors of our perfect God. ![]()
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