Job Chapter 34. God, I think You need my help.
In this chapter I want to focus on one aspect of the chapter where Elihu is speaking to his three friends about how Job has declared his innocence before God. He brings up the fact that Job has made accusations against God claiming that God has been unjust or unfair. It's almost like saying, “God you made a mistake.” “God you don't know what you are doing.” “God you need my help.” Job is QUESTIONING God.
This attitude of QUESTIONING God is not just common when one is in pain and suffering with health, but with any given situation that doesn't make human sense.
There have been times in my life when I have QUESTIONED God. It is during these times I have felt the need to help God, as if God NEEDS my help.
For example, I have questioned his ability to help me financially. I've questioned his ability to show me the job he has for me. I've questioned his ability when I'm faced with broken relationships.
The times I seem to most question God is when what is happening doesn't make GOOD SENSE for MY LIFE!! It's as if I'm saying, “If God could just see things from MY perspective then he would intervene the way I want him to.” As if to say, “My ways and thoughts are bigger and more valuable than God's ways and thoughts.” It's as if God needs my help and my intervention. And in doing so, I belittle God's Power and Majesty. Instead, I need to trust God more and have faith in his ways and thoughts over my ways and thoughts.
Some scripture verses that go with this are:
1. Isaiah 55:8-9 God says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways my ways declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
2. Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and he will direct your path.”
3. Matthew 6:25-34
Is a great passage to remind us DO NOT WORRY!!!!!!!! GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF US!!!!!!
The topic of doubting and questioning made me think of John the Baptist today. Here are a few verses containing what he had to say about Jesus.
Matthew 3:11
“I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”
John 1:29
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”
John 3:30
“He must increase, but I must decrease.”
Then we read about this question in Luke 7:18-20.
The disciples of John reported all these things to him. And John, calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to the Lord, saying, “Are You the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?” And when the men had come to Him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to You, saying, ‘Are You the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?’”
I think in our humanness, it is probably normal to sometimes question if something is part of God’s plan when things aren’t going the way that we would expect them to go, but we should remember what we are told in 2 Corinthians 5:7 and the Bible passages that Pastor Blair shared today.