(Written in 2007 – has been in the drafts section)
Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him (Job 13:15 KJV).
This verse reverberated in my heart first thing this morning. And for a minute or two I just stood in awe and wonder – because that is exactly where we are at the moment, with the economy of our country and the world crashing around us. Job had experienced a series of disasters to family and home the magnitude of which most of us could not imagine experiencing. And yet he still trusted his Lord and Savior.
And later in a few more chapters he declares “For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,”(Job 19:25-26 ESV).
These verses and others like them confirm in my heart the truth that God loves me. He loves us with His whole heart. And we can trust Him fully, completely. “He, God Himself, has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. I will not, I will not, I will not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let you down, nor relax My hold on you! Assuredly not!” (This is the Amplified version of Heb. 13:5 – which shows how strongly the Greek text emphasizes the fact.) (I always get a smile on my face when I read the Amplified version 
In my 67th year upon the earth, I have entered a new chapter of learning what it means to fully trust Him, to believe in God completely. For example, last week my wife and I had to make an emergency trip to Ohio to be with my elderly parents during a medical problem that hit them suddenly. Neither my wife nor I wanted to make the trip so soon after the last one, and we just did not have the emotional strength to deal with the stress of it. But we prayed for the Father’s grace to give us what we needed to serve them, and He so graciously supplies “exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,” (Eph. 3:20 KJV), that the trip seemed effortless – I stand amazed in His presence…
Why has it taken 2/3 of a century for me to begin living in His grace?
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I wrote this in 2007, I think, and saved it as a draft. So here it is. Don’t know why I held on to it.
Boyd