What do you do when you are stuck on trying to understand a certain verse of Scripture? For the last two and a half years as I have come to this place of redefining my relationship with God, I have found the reoccurring verse of Job 1:21 continuing to occupy my thoughts. I have read the book of Job so many times. I have read commentaries on the issue and actually have written a lot of thoughts about the book on paper. I have prayed and asked God for enlightment as to this certain verse in Scripture and I still can't figure it out. Now, there are days when that verse is brought back into my head and then I can dismiss it. Recently, for the past couple of days, I find it more difficult to get it out of my head. The commentaries and study Bibles have come back out and the prayers have started again for insight, but none has been found. So, what do I do now?
Here's the verse:
"I came naked from my mother's womb, and I will be naked when I leave. The Lord gave me what I had, and the Lord has taken it away. Praise the name of the Lord!"
I get the jest of this verse except for the part "the Lord gave me what I had, and the Lord has taken it away." How can God take things away? There is a really cool Kutless song related to this verse, and I want to get the true meaning of the song, but I just can't shake this verse. More importantly, I feel like I need to understand this verse to truly understand the character of God. How can a loving God, who is just, Holy, etc..take things away? That's probably the biggest question I have/had throughout all of this and I still don't have any answers. Will I get an answer? Maybe not, but I need to be OK not understanding this verse. For some reason, at this time I'm not and it's driving me to a place that I don't want to go. I'm not going to go backwards.
Father, help me to be OK with not knowing what your Scripture means. Give me insight into that verse in Job, if you choose, but if not help me to rest my mind and my heart in those things that I do believe about you. " Amen.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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I really wish we could walk and talk...I love your spirit...but we can't so the question that came to my mind I just have to ask it...Why, why is it you think do you need to understand it? What could be changing fundamentally in you as you realize you might not??
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