Get a Bigger Perspective!

Job 21

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, February 3.

Do you ever struggle with the world because life doesn’t make sense from your perspective? As a righteous man suffering, Job refuted his three friends’ theological argument that had oversimplified the issue of suffering as the logical consequence of a person’s sin. Job observed from his life experiences that the good do not always receive rewards for their righteousness and the wicked do not always receive punishment for their sin. Job asked a pointed question in Job 21:18, “Are they as straw before the wind, and like chaff which the storm carries away?” This truth is famously stated in Psalms 1:1-4; 35:5; and 83:13; as well as in the prophets Isaiah 17:13 and Hosea 13:3.

It is unrefutably true, but couldn’t we ask the same question based on our observations of the world today? Can we agree that things are not always as neat and orderly as we would like them to be? Faith is not living in denial to reality, nor is it sticking your head in the sand to evil and injustice in the world! There’s something more to it than that – there’s an implied paradigm shift that must come with faith!

While life under the sun doesn’t always make sense, here is one truth you can take the bank about the wicked and the righteous alike, found in Hebrews 9:27, “And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment.” While this may sound like a sad reality; it’s not! This is our ultimate belief that what has not made sense throughout our lives will be made right by our righteous and sovereign God. When life doesn’t make sense because you’ve lost sight of the forest through the trees, ascend to a higher vista, and get a bigger perspective!

Seize the moment and live at peace with God and all people because vengeance belongs to the Lord (Romans 12:18-21) – Jesus promises to make all things new (Revelation 21:5-8). Faith is trusting God that His perspective is always right!

God bless you!

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