God Is God

“I know that you [God] can do anything and no plan of yours can be thwarted.”
Job 42:2 CSB

This was Job’s response to God after God had allowed him to go through the most difficult period of his life. Job had every right from a human perspective to get mad at God and give up. Instead, Job realized that God is in control and He has a plan that is far reaching. Think about the fact that God used Job’s life events to correct the error in the lives of Job’s friends. Satan was only trying to ruin Job’s life, but God saw way beyond that and used Satan’s evil to draw others who were self-righteousness and condemning back into relationship with Himself.
Often when we face difficult life events we are quick to enter into a “poor me” attitude or an “I don’t trust God” attitude, instead of realizing that God has this season of life under control as well. He has a plan that is way beyond just my life, and if I respond in trust and faith He will use my difficulties to show others His glory and splendor. The long term effect of my admission that God is God and I am not is far-reaching. First of all, my character deepens and I begin to look and act more like Christ; then those around me begin to ask me why I respond so differently. Peter said it like this in 1 Peter 3, “But in your hearts regard Christ the Lord as holy, ready at any time to give a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you” (3:15 CSB).
How has your reaction been as life has happened to you? Full of faith and hope, knowing that God is God, or full of mistrust and questioning God?

-Pastor Tim