The Gap

I’ve just started reading the opening chapters of Job and feel like I’m missing most of what is going on. A couple of things caught my eye though, Job was scared that his children would curse God in their hearts while celebrating their birthdays, he had 10 kids. So early in the morning after the party he would rise early and sanctify them. Meanwhile in the invisible realm God is boasting of Job, satan says let me at him and he will curse you. God accepts the challenge on Job’s behalf. You all know how the story unfolds.

A telling scripture is in Job 3:25 “For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me and what I had dreaded has come upon me”. Job and his counselors believe the judgement of God has come because of sin. Job thinks he or his kids have sinned, done something wrong, in fact the opposite is true, Job was doing something right.

Judging a matter without heavenly insight based on what we see and hear combined with our limited knowledge is perilous. Simple example Peter saying Jesus shouldn’t go through with His suffering and death, Jesus answered “get behind me satan”., you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.

There is a gap between what men see and what God see’s. We need to ascend and look from above, do you have accurate prophetic sight of your life, if you don’t you will often be wondering and reeling in circumstances that don’t seem to make sense. Job was reeling and undone, broken. Chapter 3 of Job is a incredible read of deep pain and loss. The book fortunately doesn’t end in chapter 3.

Advice, don’t seek counsel from men when you are in the midst of the unexplainable and contrary, cry out to God for His sight of your life, close the gap between what you are seeing and what He is seeing.