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Editor’s Note: I must admit that as I was editing and
trying to finish this book I felt something missing. The
Lord began to show me that I was hearing His responses
to Job through my own, still incomplete, knowledge of
Him. I heard a stern condescending voice saying “Job
you little twit, WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I !” Where
was Job? Or you? Or me? We were safe in the mind and
heart of Abba who designed and created all things for His
pleasure, including us. We were in Him! And although He
surely didn’t need us, He assures us that He desires us.
We are the workmanship of His desire. Not needed,
loved. We always run astray when we see the Lord
through any other lens than the most mature statement
on love in the Scriptures. I John 4:10,
“In this way is seen the true love, not that we loved
God, but that He loved us first sending His Son to be
the atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
The Lord was not angry with Job. He was lovingly saying
to him “Although I seemingly have no need for you, as
carefully as I have designed the complexities of the
universe, that is how purposely I have created you for
fellowship with me.” Grace always takes our legs (man’s
means of strength and support) out. We drop to our
knees in the overwhelming revelation that He know us
and has called us “His beloved”. “Job I don’t need you, I
love you and desire you!”

In this connection I love First Peter 4:19, and I love it because I never
understood it. It says, “Let him that suffers in the will of God (like Job)
commit his soul unto God as unto a faithful (now you fill in the
blanks). If you don’t happen to know this verse you might fill in
“comforter” or “healer. But what it says is “Let him that suffers in the
will of God, commit his soul unto God as unto a faithful
CREATOR.” And that is what God does here in Job. He presents
Himself as a creator. So how is that going to help when I am suffering?
I don’t know the full answer, but here is the part I know. When I am
going through suffering, I do not have what it takes, but I have Him
who can create what it takes in
my life. If you are going through suffering you do not have what it takes,
but you have Him who can create what it takes. Now Job knew those

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