A Great Certainty

A Great Certainty

….I shall see God.

Job 19:26

‘It’s an uncertain life,’ so the saying goes. When Job had lost, possessions, family, health, and position he became a man stripped of all earthly comfort; bereft of all certainty. Because Job retained his integrity, did not sin with his mouth, nor charge God foolishly, he expressed his faith boldly, ‘when all around his soul gave way.’ Our text for today follows where we started yesterday, when we emphasized the first word, ‘I’. Today, we move to the second word of the text, ‘I shall….’  When we have lost all; when the storms of life have broken with lightning flash, and rolling thunder over our head; when all about us is desolation; and every earthly comfort is gone, we want more than ‘maybe;’ we want more than ‘perhaps.’ With what hope shall we encourage ourselves, if not with that which is eternal? Job lifted his eyes and saw, by faith, beyond the destitution and desolation of his household. He looked beyond the graves of his children. He looked beyond his own broken body, and the betrayal of his friends. He rested his wounded and weary soul upon this great certainty: ‘I shall see God.’ Here is hope for today, wounded and weary soul. You have looked to Christ by faith. You are enduring much hardship. Your life is hanging in doubt before you. Here is your future. You shall see God. Take encouragement today from all the certainty which the Divine Character can guarantee.

Our Gracious God and Loving Father, we praise Your Holy Name,
that You are the God of all certainty.
With You is ‘no variableness, neither shadow of turning.’
We shall see You, in the Face of Jesus Christ.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning