By Rev. Gilbert Burgess
1 Then Job spoke again: 2 “My complaint today is still a bitter one, and I try hard not to groan aloud. 3 If only I knew where to find God, I would go to his court. 4 I would lay out my case and present my arguments. 5 Then I would listen to his reply and understand what he says to me. 6 Would he use his great power to argue with me? No, he would give me a fair hearing. 7 Honest people can reason with him, so I would be forever acquitted by my judge.
On October 31, 2014, an experimental spacecraft broke apart during a test flight and crashed into the Mojave desert near Cantil, California. The copilot died while the pilot severely injured, miraculously survived. Investigators soon determined what happened, but not why the title of a newspaper article about the crash began with the words “Questions remain.”
Life is filled with many questions, there are times we experience sorrow, and for some there are no adequate explanation some catastrophic events with far reaching effects while others are personal private tragedies that alter our individual lives. We want to know why, but we seem to find more questions than answers. And while we’re struggle with why? God extends His unfailing, love to us.
When Job lost his children and his wealth all in one day, he sunk into depression and resisted any attempted explanation by his friends. Job trusted that someday there would be an answer from God. Yet even in the darkness of his struggles Job could say, God knows the way that I take when He has tested me. I will come forth as pure gold. Job remained steadfast, trusting that the Lord would work things out.
After the heartbreak, after the accusations, after Job lost everything, God restored his fortunes, giving him twice as much wealth as he had before, including new children and a long life, demonstrating God’s faithfulness even through great suffering, Job trusted, and remained faithful to his God and did not blame Him, instead Job prayed for his friends, and God restored double to Job everything he had lost.
Oswald Chambers said, “There will come one day a personal and direct touch from God when every tear and perplexity, every oppression and distress, every suffering and pain, and wrong and injustice will have a complete and ample and overwhelming explanation.”
Unanswered questions, we face every today, why are we as a nation who profess to put our trust in God, so divided as a people? Why are so distanced the shores of liberty and Justice for all?
“Struggling with questions that may remain unanswered.”
But this we know, one day those who put their trust in God will be rewarded, remember Job trusted and did not doubt and the Lord will worked things out. Always trust in the Lord who has promised never to leave nor forsake us. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28.
Rev. Gilbert Burgess is the pastor at the Community Baptist Church.
