Susanna's Rescue: Can God Put His Honor in Our Keeping?

We have the idea that prosperity, or happiness, or morality, is the end of a man’s existence; according to the Bible it is something other, namely, “to glorify God and enjoy Him for ever.”  When a man is right with God, God puts His honor in that man’s keeping. 

Job was one of those in whom God staked His honor, and it was during the process of His inexplicable ways that Job makes his appeal for mercy, and yet all through there comes out his implicit confidence in God. “And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me,” said our Lord (Matthew 11:6).

There are many loved ones who are in the hospital suffering from covid and the adverse effects of the shot. We need to appeal to God for His mercy on their behalf.  

For the families who are suffering, are you right with God?  If so, can God put His honor in your keeping?  Will you maintain your implicit confidence in God through this inexplicable ordeal?

...we must beware in our attitude toward people who are suffering that we do not blunder by imagining our point of view to be the only one. 

The revelation of redemption given through our Lord Jesus Christ is retrospective in our day; in the Old Testament it is prospective. Job goes down to the heart of the problems that make the redemption necessary, while Bildad, with his incessant questioning and pious dealing with the problems, is really shirking the whole thing.

Getting at the truth behind the covid nightmare requires exposing a mountain of lies.  But getting to the truth behind suffering requires a spiritual wisdom that comes only from God.  Only God's redeemed people can understand and direct their suffering loved ones to the necessity of redemption through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Excerpts From: Oswald Chambers. “Our Ultimate Refuge.”