(Heaven Serenades are poems written to be read or sung, called Psalms)

 

It is interesting how we all sometimes try to understand the ways of God in our lives without inquiring of Him but presume we know what He is up to. The wisest man in the world cannot fully understand all the workings of our Father in His universe, so why do we try to figure Him out? I have discovered there are things our Father won’t let me in on, that’s when I just trust Him.

 

I was thinking today about a wise  man named Job, who thought he knew all the ways of God. The Bible called him a righteous man. Job was tested and tried by the enemy. At the beginning of his testing, he worshipped God and praised Him in spite of his pain and sufferings. But as his test continued longer than he thought it would, he became angry with God because God allowed the enemy to kill his family, livestock, and struck him with boils all over his body.

 

 

He accused God of being unjust, insensitive to his needs, and failing to come to his rescue when he called out to him. He told God that since He was a righteous man, behaved properly, and dedicated his life to Him, He should do whatever he prayed and asked for. He said to him, “I curse the day I was even born!” Woe, he was madddddd, right? What happened to the worshipper and the faithful servant of God? Job listened to the words of his friends, who told him it was his fault, a wife who told him to curse God and die, and the lies of the enemy talking to his mind. Then, Job lost sight of the TRUTH of who his God was and believed THE LIES.  I can relate a little to how Job might have felt.

 

I may have never said those words to my Father, God, but I have felt as if He wasn’t answering my prayers as fast as I wanted. I felt He wasn’t paying attention to me. I also felt he left the universe on vacation and left me in my anguish, pain, confusion, and distress. A few years ago in the middle of my distress, I decided to tell God what He should do. I said, “Father, I think I have had enough of these brain issues, the depression, sadness, and my emotions all over the place. You said, You were not going to heal me but Your grace will be all I’d ever need. But Lord, I think it is time for me to come home.” I waited for days, nothing. I waited for weeks, nothing. I waited for months, then one day He spoke. “My daughter, you will come home when I say it is time for you to come home.”Alright then, end of discussion. What did I say after that about going home…not one word?

 

I am glad that’s all He said to me, but listen to just a few words our Father said to Job during his moment of distress and anguish.

 

Job 38:12 (Amplified Bible)

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“Since your days began, have you ever commanded the morning
and caused the dawn to know its place

¹⁵ 
Have you entered and explored the springs of the sea
or [have you] walked in the recesses of the deep?

¹⁷ 
Have the gates of death been revealed to you
or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

¹⁸ 
Have you understood the expanse of the earth?
Tell Me, if you know all this.

¹⁹ 
Where is the way where light dwells?
And as for darkness, where is its place

²⁰ 
that you may take it to its territory
and that you may know the paths to its house?

²² 
Have you entered the storehouses of the snow
or have you seen the storehouses of the hail

²³ 
which I have reserved for the time of trouble
for the day of battle and war?

^{Skipped to verse 35} 
Can you send forth lightning that they may go
and say to you, ‘Here we are’?

³⁶ 
Who has put wisdom in the innermost being [of man, or in the layers of clouds]
or given understanding to the mind [of man, or to the heavenly display]?

³⁷ 
Who can count the clouds by [earthly] wisdom
or pour out the water jars of the heavens

³⁸ 
when the dust hardens into a mass
and the clods stick together [because of the heat]?

³⁹ 
Can you [Job] hunt the prey for the lion
or satisfy the appetite of the young lions

⁴⁰ 
when they crouch in their dens
and lie in wait in their lair?

⁴¹ 
Who provides prey for the raven when its young cry to God
And wander about without food?”

 

This conversation extended two more chapters, in chapter 40:4, Job replies:

 

Then the Lord said to Job,

² 
“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty?
Let him who disputes with God answer it.”

³ 

Then Job replied to the Lord and said,

⁴ 
“Behold, I am of little importance and contemptible; what can I reply to You?
I lay my hand on my mouth.

⁵ 
“I have spoken once, but I will not reply again—
Indeed, twice [I have answered], and I will add nothing further.”

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After repenting and turning his focus back to our Father, In the Fullness of Time, our brother, Job was blessed twice as much as he had before his testing. He became more intimately acquainted with his God and Father which was the greatest blessing of his testing! What the enemy meant for evil, our Father always means it for our good.

 

 

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IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME
Copyright © 2005 by Tresca S. Grannum

 

Life is just a moment passing away in time.

Our Father living within us is what’s heavenly, so divine.

In patience, in faithfulness, in grace, we must rest.

Until the plans of our Father He reveals and manifests.

 

 

Chorus

In the fullness of time, Father sent forth His Son.

In the fullness of time, the tiny baby was born.

In the fullness of time, night bows to day.

And in the fullness of time, our Father does what He says.

So just rest in His arms until His promises appear.

Time is like the darkness in His light it will disappear.

 

 

Remember, life is just a vapor and soon it will be gone.

What we see is only temporal one day we will be back home.

We must lay aside our doubts, knowing our Lord Jesus is the Way.

Trust in His faithfulness for He will never lead us astray.

 

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Enjoy Christ and Enjoy Life!