Job 23:3 “Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!”
Please consider Job’s plea concerning God when Job’s heart weighed him down the most.
This not only tells us of Job’s sense of the loss of the presence of God, but of his longing to have it back. “Good men are washed towards God even by the rough waves of their grief; and when their sorrows are deepest, their highest desire is not to escape from them, but to get at their God.” (Spurgeon)
“In Job’s uttermost extremity he cried after the Lord. The longing desire of an afflicted child of God is once more to see his Father’s face. His first prayer is not, ‘Oh that I might be healed of the disease which now festers in every part of my body!’ nor even, ‘Oh that I might see my children restored from the jaws of the grave, and my property once more brought from the hand of the spoiler!’ but the first and uppermost cry is, ‘Oh that I knew where I might find HIM — who is my God! that I might come even to his seat!’” (Spurgeon)
Is this where our focus settles when we find ourselves in dire straits? How can this become our focus? Let’s discuss this Thursday morning as we come together to study God’s wonderful word.