One evening last week Hunter and Jakob were hanging out in the kitchen with me as I was making dinner. I had been at work all day so I was enjoying hearing all about how their day had gone and what they had been up to. Hunter (the 6 year old) says, "Hey Mom, can you whistle?" I said, "NO" (don't laugh at me! I just never learned how to whistle!) Hunter comes back at me with, "But Moms know everything!" (see my blog post "Mom's Know EVERYTHING!" posted June 2011) Then, Jakob (the 4 year old) looks at me and says, "Guess you are not really a mom then!"..........WHAT????
I wanted to look at my boys and say "EXCUSE ME" I carried you both for nine months! I have a combined total of 50 hours of labour under my belt! I was either pregnant or nursing from 2001 to 2007!! I birthed you from my loins!! I have been peed on, pooped on, puked on, and had my clothes soaked through from breast milk cause some other baby was crying the next isle over at Wal mart!!! I most certainly AM a MOM!!!
Over the past week I have reflected several times on Jakob's comment. I thought of the times in life we may say to God..."I guess your not really God." You know the times when something really rocks our life and we say...."If there was really a God then this would not happen." Sometimes it is hard to look at all that is wrong in the world and make sense of it all.
I went through a time like that in my life. A time where none of it made sense and I did not see the point in even praying. I could not even say bed time prayers with my kids. I would kneel by their bed and have them say the prayer cause I could not utter a word to God. I could not see where God was in my circumstances and certainly could not understand why He had allowed such things to happen!
I am not the only one....most of us have heard the story of Job from the Bible. Job was a faithful servant of God who lost his children, his home, his wealth, and his health. After enduring such loss and agony he begins to question God....for about 6 straight chapters he asks God, "why me?" And then God answers Job.
God said to Job, "Brace yourself like a man; I will question you and you shall answer me." Then for the next 4 chapters God asks Job questions that remind both Job and us who HE is..."Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Who marked off its dimensions? Who shut up the sea behind doors? Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place? Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Who can tip the water jars of the heavens when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together?...."(Job 38)
I, like Job, need to be reminded sometimes of who God is. My prayer is that the next time I face things that may tempt me to say...."If you were really God you wouldn't...." my reply will be that of Job's....after enduring God's questioning him like a man Job replied:
"I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted. You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?' Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know." Job 42:2-3
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