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Ever tried praying and felt or saw nothing happen?…such times will definitely reveal your faith. When you are seeking for an answer and when no answer comes, feel like giving-up? Job said, “Oh that I knew where I might find Him.” Job was a blameless and upright man who feared God. Yet when difficulties had arisen he too was looking for God. Job was an exceptionally God fearing man who probably heard from God daily and always sensed God’s presence guiding and protecting Him.
In Job 23:3 the Bible mentions Job’s heartache amidst his troubles, “Oh that I knew where I might find him that I might come even to his seat!” Such a statement is not foreign to me, for there are days when I am enjoying being with God and His Word. Yet there are times when I awake to find that I’m alone and despite my prayers I can’t find Him. I search frantically like a blind man trying to switch on the light yet not able to see. I grope for the door handle which will lead me out of this circumstance yet I find no door.
Where is God? My thoughts leads off racing in remembrances to the joy I once felt in His presence, to the comforting of His Word and to the security of being with Him. However I feel so far. Could it be liken to what Jesus felt at the cross when He had discovered that the Father had turned His face away from Him because of my sin thus He cried out, “My God, my God why have you forsaken me!”
Then mulling over for a moment I wonder whether it is God who has left me or I who have abandoned my God? I was having fun and taking my relationship with Him for granted that slowly, day after day I allowed the pressures and distractions of life to slowly replace my time with God. Unlike Job who could not find God, I am in a more privileged position as the Bible teaches that God has made His home in my life. Therefore wherever I am, I am the Church building/ temple to the presence of God. The reality of the situation is that I am never alone nor abandoned. He has always been around, I have moved away! To come back to God is simple; I merely need to yield to His will and not mine be done.
Yes, even if I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear NO evil!
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