Job 40:1. “Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said, ‘Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? He that reproveth God, let him answer it.’’’ INSTRUCT GOD? NEVER!
What would I say, if He asked of me; An answer to my every complaint? What would I say that wouldn’t seem like; I do not like all that He has sent? I would not nor could not, say I don’t like, The color of sky or of sea; I surely would lie if I said I would change, The taste of the food He gave me.
The seasons of years or even life itself, Wouldn’t work if He turned them around. And the way that we speak and we laugh or we cry, Would seem bad if we changed all the sounds. It would throw all things off, if He quickly did change, The things that make night and day. How would we sleep or even awake; If God had done it some other way?
I am positively sure that God knew what is best; And it would be a serious mistake; If I went ahead, and chose my own way, Because He knows the way that I take. So like Job, I’ve no answer that I’d dare to give; The Almighty has power alone: To give as He wants and then take away All He gave, ‘cause I’m His and all that I own.
The good and the bad, I really must take, Although I may never know why He allows the bad that can make us so sad; And our purpose in life it may try. And the good that we like and we fully enjoy, May not stay as long as we’d wish. But He knows what to give, that we fully employ Our will, that it truly is His.
The power of God, so great and so awesome, Can be seen and experienced by me. There is no other answer can be found by all men, “God’s the Almighty, the Source of all is He!” My role is to conform, to fit in the plan, To be all He wants me to be. And the results and the way, that He brings it about; In the future, we clearly will see.
“O Almighty God, who knows the end from the beginning: I know all is under control. But there are times when I look around too much at all I see happening and wonder, and think wrong questions. So, I remember my frailness and who I am, and my limitations – and practice trust again. ‘I am Thine, O Lord, I have heard Thy voice,’ and I am called to say, ‘Thy will be done.’ Amen.”