Yet Will I Trust Him

"Yet Will I Trust Him"

Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. (Job 13:15)

The entire Keswick and Freedom Fighter family grieves with the Groen and Welte families today. Little Lindsay Groen went to heaven Friday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. She fought valiantly for almost six weeks, coming back again and again. Ultimately, God decided it was time for her to come to Him.

Life often doesn't play out like we want or expect it to. We wonder why things happen like they do, especially when so many people (in Lindsay's case, thousands) pray for a particular outcome. Sometimes life just doesn't make sense to us.

One of the earliest God-followers knew our questions and frustrations.
Job was absolutely right with God when his whole world caved in. He didn't see it coming; he had no reason to expect it. It still came.
His friends didn't help. They gave him all kinds of reasons for his difficulty. All their collective wisdom was wrong. His wife was no help either. She told Job to just curse God and die.

Job's response is both amazing and challenging. "Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him." Life sometimes comes fast and hard, and we have no control over it. We don't begin to understand why God allows some things to happen. When those days come our ways we can learn from Job.

I don't know where I read it or heard it, but I've never forgotten this little saying: "Don't doubt in the dark what you know to be true in the light." Job chose to believe what he knew to be true in the light during the darkest days of his life. We can do the same thing.

We pray for the Groen and Welte families, and we grieve their loss.
None of us has clear understanding why God allowed Lindsay's death. For these two families and for ourselves we can echo Job's words. Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. We can pray its truth to take root in the hearts of these grieving parents and grandparents. We can pray its truth for our lives because sooner or later we'll need it, too. - Pastor John Strain is Senior Pastor of First Baptist Toms River and our weekend Freedom Fighter contributor. He is also Bill and Jan Weltes' pastor.

God's WORD for YOU: 1 Chronicles 4-6; John 6:1-21

Think about this: Let us not be content to pray morning and evening, but let us live in prayer all day long. Let this prayer, this life of love, which means death to self, spread out from our seasons of prayer, as from a centre, over all that we have to do. All should become prayer, that is, a loving consciousness of God's presence, whether it be social intercourse or business. Such a course as this will ensure you a profound peace. Francois Fenelon