Songs in the Night

The story of Job really impacted me so much more today than it ever has before. Job wasn't going through his trials because of sin in his life or something he had done wrong. But rather he was being tested because he was a righteous man who was doing everything right. I feel like so often I ask God, "why is this happening? What did I do? Why me? Is this all my fault? Why am I struggling?" I look around and see wicked people being successful and I get so confused and aggravated with God. But the road we walk wasn't meant to be easy, was it? Paul said to suffer and die for Christ is to gain. I am taking hope in the story of Job today.

Job 35:6-12
Look up at the heavens and see
gaze at the clouds so high above you.
If you sin, how does that affect him?

If your sins are many, what does that do to him?

If you are righteous, what do you give to him,

 or what does he receive from your hand?

Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself,

 and your righteousness only other people.

“People cry out under a load of oppression;

 they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.

But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker

  who gives songs in the night,

who teaches us more than he teaches^[b] the beasts of the earth

 and makes us wiser than^[c] the birds in the sky?’

He does not answer when people cry out

because of the arrogance of the wicked.



p.s. I commented on Abbey Griffin's.