Pastor John,
I love learning more of who Job was and understanding what kind of hearts were involved. I left last night in awe of what Job was going through and his heart about it. I am grateful to feel all of this.
Tonight, as I read the emails coming through from others about Job, all I could think of was his heart. Job wanted God more than anything else. I can see why God could use a heart like that. I can see why God chose Job. Oh, how God must love him. I do. This put a love in my heart for Job–a love for his heart.
We just started Kings in the Old Testament class* and I put on a CD today and heard you saying this: “You’re going to ask for advice throughout your life until you get the advice you want. You’re going to seek for the kind of life you want to live until you find it. If you don’t want to live right and you seek for a kind of life that makes you feel right (in spite of your sin), but you find a place where people are living right, it’s not going to satisfy you. You are going to go right past God’s answer to get what you want. It takes a wise person to ask a right question at the right time, and the right time is before you make up your mind what you want.”
It’s a matter of the heart. You are going to end up with what your heart really wants.
Beth D.
* Old Testament Course (Pt. 1) – Going to Jesus.com