This I Know
I actually believe that I know lots of stuff. I know my family. I know what day it is. I know right from wrong. I know good versus bad. I’m not being braggadocios, but as an older man with lots of different kinds of experiences; I’ve learned a good bit. There is still a bunch that I don’t know. I don’t know how to work on airplanes. I don’t know a lot about medicine. I don’t know a lot about how cell phones work. I don’t know a lot about satellite technology. I actually have a lot to learn even though I know a lot.
Job was once again pushing back on his friends who were lecturing him that he had obviously sinned against God and he was being punished. Job was not convinced that he had sinned at all. I think he was struggling to be respectful to the Lord as he cried out to Him. I do believe Job had a deep and strong relationship with the Lord even in spite of losing his family, his possessions and his health. Job responds with what he knows in the midst of this unhealthy debate with his friends. Check this out…
25 I know that my redeemer lives,
and that in the end he will stand on the earth.
26 And after my skin has been destroyed,
yet in my flesh I will see God;
27 I myself will see him
with my own eyes – I, and not another.
How my heart yearns within me! (Job 19:25-27 NIV)
This short passage reminded me about what I know about the Lord. I realized that not everyone will understand my relationship with Him as they maybe haven’t walked through what I’ve walked through with the Lord. I can’t imagine having gone through some of the suffering in my life without Him walking with me through it. He has never forsaken me and left me on my own. I started repeating a phrase years ago in the middle of one of the storms of my life that goes like this: “Go with what you know until your feelings catch up.” I’m not sure where it came from, but it reminds me that my feelings and emotions can be fickle and temperamental for sure. If I want to walk steady with the Lord, I have to trust Him even when I can’t see Him or feel Him. These are the times that I have to lean into and stand upon His promises in His Word. He promises that He will not leave me and He hasn’t.
I’m going with what I know about Him versus how I feel about Him today and every day.
I love this simple song by Crowder called – This I Know
Pressing On!
Dwayne