NOTE: This was the passage God gave me after a major accident that totaled my car. God is great!!!
Job 10:1-2 (ESV Strong's)
“I loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
I will say to God, Do not condemn me;
let me know why you contend against me.
Subject: Suffering
Job has lost his family, his possessions, his status and, is in the process, of losing his health ... And from his perspective, perhaps his very life. The friends around him can only declare what they know and what they know from history is that those who do bad, suffer for it (Job 8:8-9). In the above couple of verses, Job has come to a point to "loathe" his life. He "can't take it any more" and is going to bring his compliant directly to God. He wants to know why God condemned him and why God wants to "contend" with him. Yet, through all this, we, the readers, have information not in possession of Job or his friends. We know that God already declared Job righteous (Job 1:1, 8). We know that this is really a result from an attack by Satan (something NEVER considered by Job's friends throughout the entire book). Yet, Job, without all the information, begins to defend himself and challenge God based upon a false premise. It is important to remember, that in the midst of suffering, we are not holding all the information. God has His purposes and His will. Our job is to trust God's character, not evaluate the circumstances. We KNOW that God can't do wrong (Here is where we can agree with Job's friends ... Job 8:3). But, we can't agree with them that these circumstances are a result of Job's sin. We have information neither they or Job has. Just like Job's situation, so too with us. God is doing a work and our part is to trust God with all the pieces. We only have the pieces in front of us. But, God's plan and care has all the pieces. We ought not to "loathe" our lives in this suffering because we trust in God to put all the pieces together, perfectly.
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