Coming back around...

Hi Empty Space,
I heard something in a MarsHill message last week... it was an old message from back in April of last year. In it the speaker was talking about spiritual warfare as a very real thing. He was using terms like bombs and fights that painted a war zone picture. But that these things happen on a plain that we just can't see. I don't know, but I do know that there are times that I seem to be getting my feet under me, feeling ok, and then I get them cut out from under me. At times like those it feels like warfare. What I have to do each time is lean closer to God and let Him be in control. It's not always easy to do, but when I am able I feel better much faster.

In my chronological bible for this year the book of Job is early in the book. I have been reading it this week. What I was thinking about today as I read was how Job's friends keep telling him that God "gets" the wicked people of the world, and so what is happening to Job must be the result of wickedness in him. Finally Job points out the error in this statement toward the end of chapter 21. I feel like Job does about people getting smashed by God, that does not often happen to people that care little about God. The thing that I was thinking most about as I read today was how Job's friends could have been comforting him, helping to heal him, taking care of him. Instead, they were tell him all the things that he must have done wrong to get where he is.

I am comforted by fact that I have friends that do comfort and care.

ok... mom is up and stirring about.. so begins another day...
-me