Job 34: 14-15 If it were his intention and he withdrew his spirit and breath, all mankind would perish together and man would return to the dust.
It isn't surprising that Job is the oldest book in the Bible for from the moment Adam and Ever were cast from the garden and began living beneath the shadow of death, human beings have suffered. In Job we find a human codicil for suffering. No matter what we should suffer in this life, we can always find an echo of understanding in reading Job.
All of us are born into this world beneath that same shadow of death and all of us are in the process of learning to live as we are in reality, dying. In the ruddiness of health and strength, we take our lives for granted thinking that our strength comes from ourselves and not truly believing that we are mortal beings. The fullness of life can blind us to our own precariousness. We can become so sure of our own power that we never truly stop to consider that none of our dreams or plans can ever come to pass unless the Lord wills us to live long enough to accomplish them. Every moment we walk upon this earth is governed by the uncertainty that we will remain alive in the next.
In our time, most of tend to rely upon science as our guide to reality. Nothing is truly fact unless it has been proven by science to be fact. That which is real must be verified by science in order to own its reality. We tend to live our lives in self-ownership until a scientist who has obtained a portion of our bodily tissue or fluid, peers at it beneath a microscope, and makes a dire prediction of our future. It is in that moment that the reality of our precarious existence comes into its own. Fear and panic set in and we become immobile as our dreams and plans for our future seem to have suddenly come to an end. We pass from the delusion of thinking ourselves near immortal and in charge of our own destiny into another delusion of our lives being over when they are not.
The truth is that our lives don't belong to us but they are not precarious for our life is in the hands of God. He has numbered our days and has His master plan for each one of them as we live them out before Him. None of us will pass before the time appointed and none of us will suffer that which is not ordained by Him and all of it suits His purpose. Nothing that we suffer is in vain.
How glorious it is to know, Jesus and in Him to be able to enter the rest of God. To not only have the breath of God to enliven us to walk upon this earth but in Christ, to experience the full breath of God that is the Holy Spirit working within us, drawing us ever closer to the Father. Jesus walks with us and talks with us and one day, will guide us home.
On this uncertain day, breathe on me oh, breath of God and fill me with the certainty of Life that is Jesus.
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