Depending On Our Understanding?

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: "If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking? Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees. But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed. Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope? Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off? As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same."
Job 4:1- 8

What do you think about God? Do you have any idea of what is going on in the universe? Do you talk as if you know something you do not know?
Love is not about performance; it is about choosing to put someone else's interests over your personal interests, comfort, or pleasures. God is older than us, smarter than us, and loves us; we can trust Him.

God's love never changes. That means He will never stop doing what is right on my behalf. He will never do what would harm me or act out of hatred or vengeance. This does not mean that He will never allow me to be a person in Job's position, to suffer here on earth, to be stoned like Stephen or Paul, or to be misunderstood and crucified like His own Son, Jesus.
Sometimes, we see as if we are looking through a cloudy glass. We have believed Satan's lies for so long that they seem more believable to us than God's truths. Our real gods have become our comfort, health, and pleasure, and if they are attacked, we feel abandoned. Theology is abandoned for logic and pragmatism. We somehow want God and the universe to revolve around us, and we have made the definition of love fit that belief.

Sometimes, we can be so wrong by depending on our understanding. If I am disappointed with God today, I do not know Him. The answer is not to change my circumstances but to properly understand who God is.


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