Don’t Stop Seeking Him
Job 23:3
Job could not find out, with all he could do, why it was that God had so forsaken him. Job had a good and honest heart, and a conscience void of offence both toward God and toward man.… We see the end from the beginning.… [We know] that the captivity of Job arose out of God’s pure and unchallengeable sovereignty, as we say. God deserted and forsook Job for reasons that were sufficient to Himself, and in which He had no counselor. It was to silence the scoffs and sneers of Satan: it was to provide a shining example of submission and resignation, and trust in God, that would stand out to the end of time.…
Are you one of those who are this day saying, “Even today is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. Oh that I knew where I might find Him: that I might come even to his seat!” Then seek Him where Job sought Him and at last found Him. Seek Him in a humble, broken, believing heart. Go on seeking Him in a still more, and a still more, humble, broken, believing heart. Seek Him deep enough and long enough: seek Him with your whole heart; and sooner, or later, you too, will find Him. Seek Him like David, seven times a day. Like David also, prevent the night watches and the dawning of the day seeking Him.…
Ye have heard of the patience of Job. “And the Lord turned the captivity of Job: … and the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.… So Job died, being old and full of days.”
Alexander Whyte, Lord, Teach Us to Pray.
