Trust and Obey
When we walk with the Lord in the light of His Word,
What a glory He sheds on our way!
While we do His good will, He abides with us still,
And with all who will trust and obey.
Trust and obey, for there's no other way
To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
This week in my Bible study with my girlfriends we are reading through Job. I always find Job a bit difficult to read. My girlfriend pointed out that it is like a Facebook tirade between friends (or Facebook “friends”)—yes, that is exactly what it feels like. Everyone is trying to prove their own point of view, no one conceding or listening to each other. I feel like I am watching a daytime talk show where all the hosts are trying to one up each other with their opinions and I just want to turn the channel. But I don’t. This is God’s word so there is a message in here for me.
What is that message?
I will admit that after reading Job three times, it finally dawned on me. I am not the sharpest tool in the drawer. This time after reading it, my eyes were more open to what God wanted to show me.
Trust and Obey.
In Job 28, Job is speaking of God’s wisdom. Job is saying that God’s wisdom is too big for us. We will not understand it, cannot understand it. Search the earth, the sea, the deep and it will not be found. God’s wisdom cannot be bought with jewels.
God created all. He knows the limits of the wind and rain.
In Chapter 28, Verse 27, Job states:
God saw it
Declared it
Established it
Searched it
God knows all and his wisdom is inaccessible to man.
We just need to trust and obey, revere God and his wisdom.
“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9
Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5
Song Trust and Obey, Hymn written by Daniel B Towner and John Sammis, 1887
