The Question we do not Understand

Scripture:
Yet God drags away the mighty by His power;
when He rises up, they have no assurance of life.
He gives them a sense of security, so they can rely on it,
but His eyes watch over their ways.
They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone;
they are brought low and shrivel up like everything else.
They wither like heads of grain.
Job 24:22-24

Observation: While Job continues to lament his circumstance, he spends this chapter wondering about the success of the wicked. Like other observations, he begins by being concerned about the success of evil people to perpetrate acts without punishment from God. However, he then observes that they avoid the "light". The wicked sneak about, hide, and act in secret. Finally, Job arrives at this conclusion - that the wicked also die, and when they die they are lost forever. They may be "exalted for a moment", but at death they are gone ... eaten by worms, withered like grain, and removed from all existence and without any hope.

Application: We all - every one of us - wish to understand the dynamic of good and evil the world. Especially in the context of our faith in a loving God, it bothers us when the evil prosper yet the good struggle.

I am reminded of this today, after my discussions last night. Believers struggle, while many evil wrongdoers succeed. To see a man struggling with everything in life - from the death of friends, to physical pain, to the inflictions of his father, to lost employment ... ALL at the same time - is overwhelming. It makes us question God. That is not to say it makes me disbelieve, but certainly it is hard to understand.

And yes, my understanding in limited, and God's in infinite. His ways and thoughts are so far above my own. I trust he has a purpose, and I am willing to respond to his requests of me in that plan. As I said last week ... I don't always understand, but I believe.

Prayer: Dear Lord, please be Kyle's father today. He needs that. He hungers for family and often speaks about lost brothers who are not of his family, while lamenting the pain caused by his father. He needs you to be more than his Lord this day. He needs you to be his abba. Somehow, please be real to him, help him through his pains and demons, physical and spiritual and mental. Only your love is enough, but it is also all sufficient. Amen.