Today's encouragement comes from Job 38:4a, where God asked Job this probing query:
"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? . . . "Ooo. How would we like to have God say words like those (above), to us? To hear this would humble us right down to the dust. The reality is that the Lord *does* ask us this basic question every time we imagine that we know better than He does, or every time we complain about His providences (and the way they work) in our lives.
I know that I did not exist (except in the mind of God) when He "laid the foun-dations of the earth." Therefore, I have absolutely no right to counsel God on how He ought to run His universe. This one thing is for sure: I could not do a better job than He can do. Let all of us faithful Christian churchmen come to more implicitly trust our Heavenly Father, believing the best of Him always—especially as we reflect on His love for us in Christ.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Are your sins high as heaven? The mercies of God are above the heavens.” —Isaac Ambrose, in, "The Christian Warrior"]
