March of Prayer Pt 3

I spent last Friday in prayer out in the desert south of Boise. I was encouraged in a book I read recently about reading the last couple chapters of Job once a day for a month. The idea is to see how God is utterly in control of all things and does as a matter of course, things we could not even understand, He controls events we do not even see, He has dominion over powers and forces that overwhelm us and uses them to accomplish His purposes.

In those chapters, God humbles Job, not to shame him, but to show Job that any understanding he thinks he might have cannot even begin to comprehend the ways of God, the control of God over all things, or even understand His purposes.

Again, God is not shaming Job. This revelation is grace. It is not to answer Job, but to bring Job back to the place where he was at the beginning of the book...an utter confidence that God is in control of all and will resolve everything to His perfect will and holy intentions. That is certainly an act of Grace which saves us from our human reason and anxious drive to resolve what we cannot understand.

Praise God for His acts of Grace, that He speaks to us and assures us of His control, His mercy, His purposes.
That is what God is showing us. Thank you for praying for us.