2020… A Good Year to Meet With God!

Job 1:22 Despite all this, Job did not sin, nor did he blame God.

Have you heard his story? Job’s story might just be the original 2020 story. He had everything (he was indeed blessed!), he also lost everything (including his health) didn’t know why! According to him, (and God, though Job never heard God’s bragging on him) this was NOT payment for sin. In fact, according to Satan (the EVIL one among us!), Job greatest “sin” was to love the Lord his God with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength.  Deuteronomy 6:5

**Just a reminder** there IS evil and our struggle is not against flesh and blood! our struggle is against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.  Ephesians 6:12 … evil that we gave/give a position in our lives to kill, steal, and destroy!

According to Satan, he, Job, would not have done this if God wasn’t, ‘spoiling him rotten’. Obviously Satan was referring to all the “other” people who didn’t/couldn’t/wouldn’t love God because God didn’t PROTECT THEM from his, Satan’s, plans to kill, steal, and destroy them. (The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; John 10:10)

I will admit, Satan needed God’s permission to attack Job, BUT PLEASE note, it was indeed EVIL that attacked! In giving Satan permission, God never allowed evil possession of Job’s life – only temporary harassment.

For many people, this would have been enough to disassociate themselves from God, which in turn gives Satan even more freedom to steal, kill and destroy… in our upside down world today, somehow it makes sense to blame God for everything we don’t like and pursue the entity who will gladly give whatever we crave, EVEN THOUGH most of what we crave will steal, kill and destroy everything good in our lives and the lives of those we love.

Yep, 2020 could be our year of identifying with Job. In fact, I hope it is! 

WHAT!!??

Job started out knowing & believing in God…  He said, “ Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.”  Job 1:21

But when all was said and done (remember he did not sin, nor did he blame God) Job KNEW God! He asked for a meeting with God to state his case, believing that all would be well if he could just SHOW God how deserving he, Job, was of His mercy and justice, and how wrong it was for God to withhold them from him.

I’m not sure Job really wanted or believed he would get a face to face, “LET”S TALK!”, mostly I think he was just “venting” to his friends who were trying to “FIX JOB”. Whether you are the venter or the fixer(come on – don’t lie – you’ve been both!), I pray everyone of us would a “put on your big-boy/big-girl pants, face to face, meeting in the whirlwind”, to meet, greet and REALLY KNOW OUR ABBA – our DADDY!

Without a doubt, everyone of us would finally, like Job, have the moment of TRUTH and it WOULD SET US FREE!

“I know that You can do all things, And that no plan is impossible for You. ‘Who is this who conceals advice without knowledge?’ Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I do not know. ‘Please listen, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You instruct me.’ I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You; Therefore I retract, And I repent, sitting on dust and ashes.”  Job 42:2-6

2020 could be our moment!

All we have to do is ASK…

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and pleading with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Philippians 4:6

Read Job 38 and 39… Then the Lord  answered Job from the whirlwind and said, Job 38:1  Better yet… ask God for your very own WHIRLWIND MOMENT!

Our God is the God of details. There is no detail too small nor unimportant to Him. EVERY DETAIL is created and cultivated and sent with the love of God. If there were such a detail (small and not important), let me assure you, it would NOT be a detail in your life.

EVEN IF it’s the year called 2020!

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.  Isaiah 55:8-9

Remember; Job did not sin, nor did he blame God.

Are you a member of the upside down crowd in our world today, those who wish for destruction of the good and snuggle up with love for evil because the side seems to be winning? Is it all about who seems to be winning at this moment? Of course who doesn’t want to be on the winning team?

Has 2020 convinced you that God, if He exists, must not care because you’re just not feeling “the love”?

Before you give your final answer… and before 2021 arises to take its place, ask God to tell you the truth. He will answer with His Word – My word be which goes out of My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the purpose for which I sent it.  Isaiah 55:11

2020 is indeed a year that needs a voice that can be trusted to speak the truth, and only the truth. There is many voices, but there is only One who not only speaks the truth but is The Truth… The Way… and The Life (John 14:6).

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.  John 3:16

Though there is suffering in a world that is falling apart because of mankind’s desperate claim to me, myself and I, God has a plan and He has the victory in His hand!

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.  Romans 8:28-30

But don’t take my word for it…

Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. Revelation 3:20 

Wow… Job got a whirlwind… we get to dine with Him!

2020… A Good Year Meet With God!

Dinner is ready… answer the door!

**All Scripture quoted comes from the “Bible Gateway” app and is the NASB version of the Bible unless otherwise noted.