Song # 2090 from Our Gospel In Song Collection by Col Johnston. The Book of Job is the story of a good man who suffers total disaster, and his friends try to console him. In the song “Where Is God” Job’s friend Elihu said to him:
“Do you think this is just? You say ‘I shall be cleared by God’” (Job 35:2). “Yet you ask Him, ‘What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?’” (Job 35:3). “I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you” (Job 35:4). “Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you” (Job 35:5). “If you sin, how does that affect Him? If your sins are many, what does that do to Him?” (Job 35:6). “If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?” (Job 35:7). “Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only the sons of men” (Job 35:8). “Men cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful” (Job 35:9). “But no-one says ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night?’” (Job 35:10). “’Who teaches more to us than to the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air’” (Job 35:11). “He does not answer when men cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked” (Job 35:12).
Thought for today: God’s certainty will see us through life’s uncertainties.
Thought for the future: a wise man learns from his mistakes while a fool continues to make them. Where will you spend your eternity?