His Glory Revealed

The Devil dropped by to chat and the conversation drifted to Job….

Have you thought about him the Lord asked?

Yes Lord, but you have a hedge around him and his stuff so I cannot get to him….

So God moved the hedge back….

Have you ever noticed that sometimes God moves your hedge back and life comes at you from every angle?

Seems that there are seasons that the hedge is back and the Devil has free range in your life….

And when he does all those fiery darts of the enemy assault your mind and spirit….

Then he allows those fiery trials to engulf you but tells you they are no big deal…

Yeah right!

Fiery darts of depression, oppression, sadness, suicide, and the tsunami of fiery trials of divorce, failed relationships, failed kids or failed careers….

Sometimes the fiery darts turn into fiery trials that sure seem like fiery Hell….

You have been there too I see!

But Peter kept talking and reminds us that in a short while…..

The Lord’s glory is going to be revealed in us…

This I do not understand….

Why does he allow the fiery darts and fiery trials to come so He can get glory from it?

No, this is a hard thing….

But when I build up my host holy faith and pray in the Holy Ghost….

I can see through a glass darkly and barely comprehend…

That indeed His glory one day soon will be revealed in me….

Kinda like the fellow who was born blind and the Pharisees asked Jesus if he or his parents had sinned…

Neither was the Lord’s answer…

And then the great revelation….

This man was blind so that the Son of Man might be glorified….

OK……

So the poor guy was born blind and for a lifetime of frustration and poverty he has stumbled around just so Jesus can get some glory?

Yup….

For Peter goes on to tell us that soon the glory of the Lord will be revealed in us and we will be very happy about it….

The pain will be worth the gain….

And the blind man could only say….

I once was blind but now I see…..

So God moved the hedges back a bit and Job dealt with his own fiery darts and trials, losing everything but his nagging wife….

And integrity…

But if you just keep reading you will learn….

That in the end the Lord revealed His glory in Job and blessed him with more than he had lost in the beginning….

Some days and some things I just do not understand…..

But I intend to hang around and see His glory revealed…..

For some reason….

I just do not think I will regret my decision…..