Today's encouragement comes from Job 38:4a, where we read these words:
"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? . . . "How would we like to have God ask us this question (above)? Simply hearing this would humble us right down to the dust. The reality is that there is a sense in which the Lord *does* pose this query before us 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.
None of us had yet been created when God "laid the foundations of the earth." Therefore, none of us have any right to instruct God on how He ought to run His universe. This one thing is for sure: we could not do a better job than He can. Let all of us Christian churchmen come to more implicitly trust our Heavenly Father, believing the best of Him always—especially based 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"]
