"My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." ~Psalm 73:26

8/8/11

Job 7:17-18

"What is man, that You should exalt him? 
That You should set Your heart on him?
That You should visit him every morning, 
And test him every moment?"
(Job 7:17-18)

Job somehow recognizes that God is trying him because He loves him. He tests him because He owns him. He gives him pain because somehow, through this suffering, God is staking His claim on Job.
Job doesn't understand how he could be important enough to receive so much attention from God.
Job is in agony. Yet he equates his suffering with... exaltation. God "setting His heart on him."
Perhaps we all look at pain and trial in the completely wrong light.

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