My Eyes Have Seen You

“...but my eyes have seen You.” Job 42:5

After a few days of reading the Book of Job, it’s fast becoming an unlikely favorite.   In no small measure it is because of what happened to a family in our church community yesterday, and because of my father’s poor condition. My 92 year old father needed blood transfusion again because his hemoglobin was alarmingly low, and he needed antibiotics because his WBC was also dismayingly down. The daughter of the family was hit by a jeep and thrown, and she suffered broken bones, a lacerated liver, continuous bleeding and trauma to her head. In the face of pain and suffering, we cannot help but ask God, “Why, Lord, why? Why now? Why us?” 

C.S. Lewis wrote, “God whispers to us in our pleasures, but He shouts to us in our pain.” It is true that if instead of cursing God or blaming Him, if we turn to Him in the dark seasons of our life, we will see and hear Him more clearly. If we seek His presence instead of answers, we will find peace and comfort. If we reach the end of our rope, we will find that God is there, and God is all we need. 

Job concluded after all his questions that were not answered, “I had heard about You before, but now my eyes have seen You.” We all know about God, atheists and agnostics, and those of us who grew up in a Christian home. But God wants us to know Him, really know Him, not know about Him. He has time for each of us. Isn’t that amazing? 

Astrophysicists can tell us there are a billion galaxies beyond what the human eye can see, and in each of those galaxies, there could be up to a trillion stars! God is in charge of all of that inconceivable space, and yet, and yet, He wants to have a personal, intimate relationship with each one of us! And yes, perhaps that’s why He uses the megaphone of pain to get our attention.