Questioning God

So what did he do?

Job questioned God. Even just saying this sounds very wrong. I was always under the impression that you do not question God. But in all reality God is able to be questioned. When you question something - like a witness in court. You want information from them, you want them to prove what they saw or heard.

Job was asking God questions, he wanted God to prove that God was just and good and all powerful. Job was putting God to the test.

He asks if God truly does see his days and the number of his steps. -Job 31

Then he asks if he has done anything to deserve this.

He asks what he is to do, a heartbreaking and very real question, He brings up the fact that God created him and formed him in the womb. But he says it with a question mark, asking God to confirm this for him.

Job is in a despite situation, worn down to the very core. One of the things I struggled with for my injury was the fact that after a while I could no longer count on myself to do things that I had always done. I had to double check that I had really put my seat belt on because I didnt trust my instincts anymore. The kicker is i have only been hurt for 4 months, Job has had this go on for an unknown length of time but you can see his unsureness. He is sick, hurt, his wife told him to curse God, he lost his kids, his house - he had everything stripped away from him, and he wouldn't be able to tell you if he had his seat belt on or not.

He wanted to know if God really was who he said he was because that was all he had left to cling to.

He shows us a rather unique way to talk to God by referencing his promises to us. In his address to God he mentions that God promises to provide. He brought up the fact that God said he formed Job with a plan from the beginning.

Job was begging God to show himself. He had clung to God's goodness when everything was stripped from him. He refused to curse God when his children died. But Jobs' trials didn't stop when he refused to curse God. It didn't stop when he clung to god's goodness.

And that left Job questioning God. not his existence. Not his all knowingness or his power or anything like that. Job questioned God, trying to find the comfort in God's answer. He was grasping for the comfort that he knew God could provide.

What would we do in response?

-Know that God is strong enough to stand up to our questioning.

-Understand what it means to pour out your soul to God - your loving creator. Knowing full well that he knows and is more caring than anyone else.

-Act on that knowledge.