“You're the one, who made the Heavens. You're the one, who shaped the earth.” – Lincoln Brewster 🌌 Dear dark deliberator, I’m talking to the depressed Job in you (and me, too), to the one facing hardship that made them blue, to the one who asks God, “Why did You allow this for me to go through?” Let’s hear what He has to say. Job 38:1-11 (NASB) Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind and said, 2 “Who is this who darkens the divine plan By words without knowledge? 3 Now tighten the belt on your waist like a man, And I shall ask you, and you inform Me! 4 Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding, 5 Who set its measurements? Since you know. Or who stretched the measuring line over it? 6 On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone, 7 When the morning stars sang together And all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8 “Or who enclosed the sea with doors When it went out from ...

“Lay down my pride, my desires, my demise. I'm ready now to see it Your way.” – Jeremy Camp 🧐 Dear response requester, We all want answers. I hope we ask for them through prayers. However, let’s not be demanding. Let’s accept that only God can be all-knowing. Read how Job longed for an explanation of his calamity, how he desired a reply from the Almighty. Job 31:35-40 (NASB) 35 Oh that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature; Let the Almighty answer me! And the indictment which my adversary has written, 36 I would certainly carry it on my shoulder, I would tie it to myself like a garland. 37 I would declare to Him the number of my steps; Like a prince, I would approach Him. 38 “If my land cries out against me, And its furrows weep together; 39 If I have eaten its fruit without money, Or have caused its owners to lose their lives, 40 May the thorn-bush grow instead of wheat, And stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended...

“Help me see that I'm small, that I can't know it all 'cause You're so unpredictable.” – Francesca Battistelli 🤯 Dear wanderer for the Father’s wisdom, You can read all the books on earth, and you can even travel back to its birth, but you can’t know it all. Compared to God, it’s an overstatement to say our mind is small. Let’s see in the passage below how wherever Job went, the mind of God he couldn’t know. Job 23:8-17 (NASB) 8 “Behold, I go forward but He is not there, And backward, but I cannot perceive Him; 9 When He acts on the left, I cannot see Him; He turns to the right, but I cannot see Him. 10 But He knows the way I take; When He has put me to the test, I will come out as gold. 11 My foot has held on to His path; I have kept His way and not turned aside. 12 I have not failed the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food. 13 But He is unique, and who can make Him turn? Whatev...

  “Though He slay me, yet will, yet will… Yet will I trust in Him.” – Men of Standard \(x_x)/ Dear hearer of hunches, Don’t believe everything people say. Inquire first if it is according to the Way. Take this blog of mine for instance. I may be speaking about the Life’s word from my stance, but all is based on the Truth’s reliable worshippers. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6) whose word ever lingers. Let us see here how Job rejects the false theology of his friends and how he declares his trust in God. Job 13:7-16 (KJV) 7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? 8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? 9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? 10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. 11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? 12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of cl...

 “Could the maker of the stars hear the sound of my breaking heart?” – Tenth Avenue North </3 left image from YouTube, right image taken in Animal Crossing Dear woebegone weeper, There, there, let it out in the open air… up to heaven’s air, figuratively. Tell God what you feel in all honesty. If you’re not sad, I’m sure you have concerns. This is for you, too, because life is a harvest of lemons planted by the devil’s minions. How do you make lemonade? Don’t just Google or ask somebody. The first thing to do is pray to God for the recipe. Continuing in the book of Job, let us look at how he laid out his questions to the Lord: Job 7:12-20 (NASB) 12 Am I the sea, or the sea monster, That You set a guard over me? 13 If I say, ‘My couch will comfort me, My bed will ease my complaint,’ 14 Then You frighten me with dreams, And terrify me by visions, 15 So that my soul would choose suffocation, Death rather than my pains. 16 I waste away; I w...

“You give and take away. My heart will choose to say, ‘Lord, blessed be Your name.’”  – Matt Redman \(‘ ᴑ ’)/ Dear receiver-returner, What we have is not really ours. That’s why when things are taken away from us, let’s not think we’re being robbed. Let us have the same attitude as God’s servant Job. Job 2:3-10 (NKJV) 3 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil? And still he holds fast to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, to destroy him without cause.” 4 So Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. 5 But stretch out Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will surely curse You to Your face!” 6 And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, but spare his life.” 7 So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with painful boils from t...