2 Chronicles 29:1-36; Ezekiel 45:1-25; John 20:19-31
Oh that I knew where I might find him!… Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. Job 23:3, 8-9
Poor suffering Job! His friends were “miserable comforters” (Job 16:2), and now he couldn’t find God. Never had the Lord seemed so distant! But Job comforted his own heart by remembering that “He knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold” (Job 23:10). We would also do well to remember that, in times of severe trial, “He knoweth…”. —E. C. Bishop
Help me then, in every tribulation,
So to trust Your promises, O Lord;
That I lose not faith’s sweet consolation,
Offered me within Thy holy Word. —Carolina Sandell Berg