Our hope is not hung upon such an untwisted thread as, “I imagine so,” or “It is likely.” . . . Our salvation is fastened with God’s own hand, and with Christ’s own strength, to the strong stake of God’s unchangeable nature. Samuel Rutherford.

“I am the Lord, and I do not change.” Malachi 3:6. 

Let (God) have all your worries and cares, for he is always thinking about you and watching everything that concerns you. 1 Peter 5:7 TLB. 

The above were in Jesus Today by Sarah Young.

It’s difficult for me to put into words everything I am learning about God’s love for us. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son…John 3:16…Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them, and that I myself may be in them. John 17:24-26. Father, Son, Holy Spirit loving and being loved and expanding that love to the creation and to you and to me. A wellspring of love so beautiful it can’t be expressed without Holy Spirit helping, guiding, comforting and leading our way forward. Let Him. 

Job speaks, You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore you will not let them triumph. 17:4. I loved what was in The Chosen devotional this morning: (The parables Jesus spoke were and are hard to understand sometimes because God wants His true followers to press in. So, press in. Open your eyes wide and strain to see. Listen closely so that you’ll really hear. Make yourself available to the Lord, that He might enlighten the eyes of your heart. ”For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks (the door) will be opened.” Matthew 7:8). 

I read our chapter, Job 17, but Job’s words are wrenched out of him in his misery and I can’t comprehend his intent fully. Who can understand another’s trials? Who can understand words so personal to someone else’s pain? I don’t find comfort in Job’s words as he didn’t find comfort in the words of his friends. From Job: Yet the desires of my heart turn night into day; in the face of the darkness light is near. If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness, if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’ where then is my hope – who can see any hope for me? v. 11-15. 

I long for that day when every heart will long for God and turn to Him for the love we long for and were created to receive and to give. Can you imagine? Can we try to imagine? Press in. God’s Truth is here and we can ask and receive from Him unshakable understanding that will lift our hearts and bring unspeakable joy…His desire for us, His children whom He loves. Thank You, Lord, for so great a Love always. And Job? Look at what Satan did to Job. Look at what our God does: The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10:10.