God Is Always Right

Today’s reading: Job 38:1-7

I often get strange looks from my Christian friends when I tell them that Job is my favorite book of the Bible.

“Don’t say that too loud,” one friend joked to me. “I know pastors who have gone their entire careers without doing a sermon on Job. That’s the most depressing book of the Bible.”

Frankly, I don’t see what’s depressing about it. For me, it’s eternally relaxing and comforting to know that God is in charge. I don’t worry, or even consider, whether God is right. I just know that His way is the only way, and, therefore, His way is always good.

Okay. Confession time. I do sometimes wonder whether God is right. In fact, I wonder that every time I see bad things happen to good people. I wonder this after just about every prayer request at my church on Sundays.  And I wondered this last night even, when I came home from a day of hot and hard labor only to remember that I still had much more hard work waiting for me at my house. “Will God let me rest?” I screamed to myself.

The answer, of course, is yes. God is good.

I am able to type that last sentence with pleasure now, after having finally slept soundly for more than 9 hours.

But last night, if I’d had the energy to type this devotional, I probably would have sounded even more depressed and angry toward God than Job.

God would certainly have been right to exclaim to me as he did to Job, “38:2 “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?”

So now that my confession is finished, it is good to return to the most important thought of today’s devotional:

“Frankly, I don’t see what’s depressing about (the Book of Job). For me, it’s eternally relaxing and comforting to know that God is in charge. I don’t worry, or even consider, whether God is right. I just know that His way is the only way, and, therefore, His way is always good.”

Thanks be to God for all that He is — even the many parts I do not understand. May I always remember He is eternally worthy of my love.