When Words Fail Me...

Sometimes even words fail the most eloquent,
And ideas fail the most creative.

But Love Never fails.
Jesus Never Fails.

Just recently, i was reading Job from the Bible.
And i TOTALLY didnt get it.
It wasnt because i was dumb.
But because.. i just didnt have the right perspective.
Okay so if you're not too familiar with the Bible, or Job for that matter,
Jobs about a guy whose name is Jobs and basically is this really innocent guy, all righteous and all.
So than, one day, Satan appears before God and says that Job is only trusting God because God has given him riches and all.
But God doesnt think so.
So what God does is that He allows Satan to 'test' him by allowing satan to take away Job's riches, family and even health.
The funny thing was, Job obviously, didnt not know about this whole thing that was going on.
Bad things just started happening to him.

And that got me thinking...
Why on earth would God want to play with Job just because He wanted to prove a point to satan? I thought, 'man.. thats really cruel...'
And it just didnt seem right for God to do that, since He was Love and all.

So i asked God, (no i really did...) Why.
Why did He do what He did to Job.
WHY.

So than i slept on it.
Went to school.
The next night, somehow i asked my father about it.

And to my amazement, he didnt exactly know the ans either!
He flipped open the Bible and we started to search for the ans together.
And as we were talking suddenly... like it just hit us.
The ans just flew in our faces.
It was as if God was talking to me through my pops!
It was SURREAL.

So essentially,
The reasons for our suffering are many.
It could be because we brought it upon ourselves through sin and all...
But sometimes, God brings these sufferings on us.
And for a very valid reason too.

God brings suffering to refine us.
Sometimes He even (like in Jobs case) has to push us to EXTREME conditions in order to
reveal our true heart and our intentions. Things sometimes we dont even know about.
I like the analogy of the furnace and gold.
Gold, as we all know is an element in the periodic table.
Gold, in order to be pure has to be refined.
And going through the process of refinement is painful.
Because Gold has to be put through BLAZING temperatures in order for its impurities to be extracted.

So yeah... do you get that?
I hope you do.

Anyhows,
If you're going through any sort of suffering dont worry.
It isnt always because of what we do.
It could be because God is refining you. Me. Us.
And that to me... in order to bring out real inner beauty in all of us is just simply...
Too marvelous for words.

There is a limit to how much we can comprehend, for our minds are finite.
But God, His Infinite.
So everytime you dont understand something about Him, it really isnt your fault.
Just ask Him, and i am very sure He'll answer.
Just like He did for me.

Ooh and i Love this logic...
"Trust God for not what He does, but for Who He is."
SHA-BAM!
Enough said.