This poem is not just personal but is my testimony in poetic form.
When I was Job, describes my response to the moments when I was faced with loss, to the point of losing life as I had known and built it to be. I, too, like Job and the other biblical characters mentioned in the poem, came to find myself at the crossroads called "Do I give up on God now or do I still believe?"
Personally, I found that having to answer that question and living in the reality of that question when serving an invisible God are two different things.
As portrayed in the poem, I went through moments where I could relate to Jeremiah: having a relationship with God at a young age, with Peter's passionate devotion, which was later followed by his denial. I could even relate to Elijah, who saw God work and then coward away, with Thomas's doubt, Sarah's helping hands in fulfilling God's will and being incorrect in her understanding of it, and then there was Lot's wife, who had to walk away from life as she knew it and not look back.
It's so easy to read these stories and at times believe that you would have handled these tests differently, but the reality is that being as human as we are, we don't. That is not evidence of a false love towards God, but evidence of a father who sees the broken and weak parts within us that need him. However, these can only be exposed through tribulations and tests.
So when you find yourself being a Job, Jonah, Sarah, etc., remember it's just a chapter towards whom He is making you become.
A little truth from my life's story
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