Happy October!! I know I haven’t been posting for a while. I am currently trying to find a work-life balance. However, this blog will continue to get updated as Abba leads. He’s the visionary, I’m just a vessel. Happy reading!
As October comes in full swing and the weather begins to change, I have noticed that God is naturally moving things around. For example: daylight savings time has not happened yet but the sun is going down earlier and the coolness of fall is creeping in.
In the same way that God changing the weather, I believe He can do the same for us. However- there are times where we can’t see what God is doing.
There are moments in our life where it feels like everything but our situation is changing. Recently, I have endured this and I found myself praying: “God, I know what you promised me- but I can’t see it.”
After praying that prayer one night, I woke up the next morning and the Lord spoke these words to my heart: “For I know the way that you take.”
Curious, I immediately Googled these words and the Lord led me to the following Scriptures below:
“But if I go to the east, he is not there;
– Job 23: 8-9, NIV
if I go to the west, I do not find him.
9 When he is at work in the north, I do not see him;
when he turns to the south, I catch no glimpse of him.
You see, the Scriptures above land us right in the middle of Job’s testing. Job was a righteous man. Because of his righteousness, God agreed to allow Satan to test him. He lost everything: his children, finances, and health. And even when his friends tried to convince him that he had done something wrong, Job remained true to his faith in God.
In the verses above, we see that Job was searching for God. Using his natural eyes, Job exclaims that He can’t find God. Like Job, there are times where we seek God and struggle to find Him because we are looking at it with our natural eyes instead of our spiritual ones.
Remember, as God’s children, we must walk by faith and not by sight (2 Cor. 5:7). Yet this can be difficult. There are days when walking by faith seems impossible because what is before us seems to cloud our vision. However, Job’s words in verse 10 give us hope.
10 But he knows the way that I take;
– Job 23:10, NIV
when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.”
You see, despite Job not being able to see God in his circumstances, he declared that God saw him.
We can trust Job’s words because the God we serve is Omnipresent (continually near) and Omnipotent (having all power). With those two characteristics of God, we can rest assured that He does see us.
An example of this can be found in Exodus 13:17. There, Moses writes that God led the Israelites a longer way out of Egypt instead of the shorter way- because He knew their hearts were faint. Similarly, Isaiah 43:2 lets us know that even when God leads us, He also walks through situations with us. He stands beside us as we endure life. Not passively, but actively.
Job also understood that it was his Maker who was testing him. Job knew that through God’s testing, he would come forth better than what He was before. If Job knew this- so can we. We can trust that God’s testing is designed to make us better than we were before (James 1:3-4)
If you’re still not convinced, though, maybe these next verses can encourage you.
“But He is unique, and who can make Him change?
– Job 23: 13-14, NKJV
And whatever His soul desires, that He does.
14 For He performs what is appointed for me,
And many such things are with Him.
Here, Job lets us know more of God’s attributes. He reminds readers that God is truly unchangeable (Hebrews 13:8). And He reminds us that God does not change His mind when He declares a thing (Numbers 23:19).
What this means for you reading this is that even when your situations seems to be unchangeable, we serve a God who can change them and is working behind the scenes for us. God is preparing our table even if we can’t see it (Psalm 23).
If you are waiting on things to change in your life like me, be encouraged! God’s timing is unique and though it may seem to delay, God operates through an appointed time.
Appointed, according to Merriam-Webster dictionary means “chosen for a particular job” or “officially fixed or set”.
What this means for us is that God’s word in your life WILL come to pass at the time He has set. God is intentional to do so. Habbakukk 2:3 reminds us that “the vision waits for an appointed time.”
We can rejoice knowing that God’s timing is appointed and will never be too early or too late.
“God’s word in your life WILL come to pass at the time He has set. God is intentional to do so”
As I close this blog post, I want to encourage you all that Job lost everything and still had his faith in God. It is because of His faith that God not only saw him, but blessed him with double that what he had before. God’s appointed time indeed came to pass for Job- and it will do so for you and I.
But we must partner with God through faith. Faith can move mountains and God sees us when we choose to put our faith in Him despite what we can’t see. As the righteousness of Christ, we must live by faith. It’s our currency!
To end, I just want you all to know this simple fact: when we can’t see God- He sees us.
He is saying to you and I today: “For I know the way that you take.”
And that way, friends, is good.
With love,
Malaysia 🙂
Chosen Grace 
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