ON FEELING LIKE JOB

I note in my "God Calling" this morning that I wrote in 2005 that I felt like Job...then I listed a slew of reasons why. Interestingly, I also wrote in 2010 the exact same thing: "I feel like Job" with another list of reasons why. I've noted a "skin-on-crooked" feeling recently, and I thought this may just be what, back in the day, we called the "summer doldrums." 

Which may be the whole story right there, but I'm reminded way back when I wrote:  "If I will make the effort to remember to turn to God when I sense any unknown coming, good or bad, and simply say 'thank you,' that can open the door for God’s perfect will to come forth.

"There are times when I’m searching for God’s will in a given situation…I talk with my mentor, my friends and confidants, I pray about it, I journal…in short, I do all the 'right' things. I go forth thinking I've got God’s will here, and KA-BOOM…wrong, wrong, wrong. That, too, is God’s will.

"If the end result initially looks wrong to me, I need to look deeper. I can’t think of any mistake I’ve made (and I’ve made way more than my share) that hasn’t eventually been beneficial to me…if only through a deeper sense of humility (of which I am never going to have too much).

"God uses what I give him to use…what I am is what He perfects."

Thank you.