Written on a 4x6 note card by Stan Julin.
[Blog Author's Note: The thoughts that follow come from the book of Job, but they are not the usual lessons others have gleaned from this book.]
April 23, 2002
Lessons from Job: The really significant issues of a man's life are those that are beyond the view of other men. These are the things that God observes, and He Himself keeps them close to His own secret thoughts, all the while engaging Himself with others in other matters of heavenly business and activity. Since the secret thoughts of a man are the real measure of a man, we may, with some security, assume that God's secret thoughts are those that reveal who He is also.
If a person chooses to disclose to another the thoughts that he has to himself, that other person is in a privileged place of honor; and the more honorable the person is who tells his secret motivations, the greater the privilege of the person listing to his words...and not merely the privilege of being on the inner circle of a noble person, but one could not help but realized that he is considered to be able to appreciate and sympathize with the thoughts of that person. Who is man that God should open up His heart to him and want man to know Him as the angels never could?
So God knew Job. Does he know me? What reason have I given him to know me? What effort of my life has been engaged in ways that would catch His eyes and ears? What common interests have we? What common characteristics, He and I, sinner that I am? I see very many people most days and ignore most of them. He knows everyone; how? How many live in such a way as to have His attention?
One thing I know: All who accept His offer of salvation by the sacrifice of His Son Jesus Christ have God's attention.
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