Stay and Observe by Rodney Howard Browne
Job’s reaction to his better half’s idea that he curse God and die is magnificent. “You speak as one of the silly ladies speaks” ( Job 2:10 ). In his weakened condition, sitting there in the anguish of all those sores, without knowing if any of that would ever change, he stood firm—he even reproved her.
he announced, to all intents and purposes “I need to fix the course of this chat. He went further than stating a reproof ; he asked a superb query. “Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?” ( v. His discernment was rare, not only back then, but today. How barely such a statement appears from our mundane system.
Job is thinking these thoughts : Doesn’t He have the right? Isn’t He the Potter? Are not we the clay? Isn’t He the Shepherd and we the sheep? Isn’t He the Master and we the servant? Isn’t the way it works? Somehow he already knew that the clay does not ask the potter, “What are you making?” And so he asserts, actually “No, no, no, lover.
We serve a God who has got the right to do whatever He does and is rarely obliged to elucidate it or ask authorization. We want to remember the God we serve has a game plan that’s beyond our understanding, including tough times like this.”. And I adore this last line, “In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips” ( v. “Sweetheart, we cannot explain any of this, so let’s wait and watch God work. We wouldn’t have predicted what occurred. Our God has a plan that’s unfolding, although we will not understand it at this time. Let’s wait and watch to see what he’s going to do next.”.
