“I Will Complain In The Bitterness

Of My Soul”

“Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that you put me under guard? When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint, even then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions, so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine. I despise my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone; my days have no meaning.

“What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention, that you examine them every morning and test them every moment? Will you never look away from me, or let me alone even for an instant? If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you? Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.”

Job 7:11-21

When we think about our worst days ever, who has died for you? Who put their body over yours in the bathtub just before a tornado, and who put themselves in your place, and died?

Job lost it all. He had to have asked what he had done to God. Job’s friends accused him of sinning and thought he deserved his difficulties.

The Lord may not give us the reasons for our trials. But thankfully, even on our worst day ever, we can know for sure we are loved by Him.

God’s love does not keep us from trials, but sees us through them.

Our Daily Bread – June 26, 2013