It's Going to be All Right!"

 

   Every now and then, trouble may come into your life that seems to be so much more than you can handle.  I have mentioned this before about the time we had severe storms in Indiana and I was probably close to five years of age.  I was screaming at the top of my lungs, half scared out of my wits.  My mother was trying to calm me down and so she picked me up and was saying, "see, everything is going to be all right."  Just as she said that, a lightning bolt hit the telephone pole outside oft he window and split it from top to bottom along with the clap of thunder that shook the house.  At that time, I had not been assured that everything was going to be all right.   Job 42:1-3 says," And Job answered Jehovah and said,  I know that thou canst do everything, and that thou canst be hindered in no thought of thine.  Who is he that obscureth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered what I did not understand; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not." 

       Job had been in a storm but it was a storm of life and he couldn't understand what was going on.  The counsel of his friends didn't seem to help that much and Job was going off track in his own mind until chapter 38 when God speaks to him and basically tells him to be quiet and listen to what He had to say to Job.  Job was getting the picture and chapter 42 and comes to the conclusion that there are things that God does that are far too wonderful for him or even us, to understand.  Perhaps it comes down to our lack of seeing and understanding the "big" picture.  We, of course, cannot see all of the reasoning of God as to why things happen the way they do.  There comes that time when we have to rely upon God's plan and that not of our own in order to gain some type of peace in our lives.  Since we have our own personal copy of the Bible, we can understand more than Job did at that time in his life when things seem to be going down the tube.  We know that God has the plan in His mind and that He will not lose His grip on us and that we will survive.  Our confidence in the Scriptures reminds us that God is saying, "See, everything is going to be fine."  Praise God today that he is in control and that He has the plan for all of our lives.  God is working out a 7 billion piece puzzle every second.