Life can seem like a maze. Within its walls we have limited vision, and choices that sometimes seem to go nowhere.
In narrow passages that make us long for wide open places, we often have more than we need and less than we desire.
Sometimes our choices take us in a circle, or to one dead end after another– while God’s presence seems no different than his absence…
Listen to how one of his best friends once expressed it:
“I go east, but he is not there. I go west, but I cannot find him. I do not see him in the north, for he is hidden. I turn to the south, but I cannot find him.
But he knows where I am going. And when he has tested me like gold in a fire, he will pronounce me innocent. For I have stayed in God’s paths; I have followed his ways and not turned aside. I have not departed from his commands but have treasured his word in my heart” Job 23:8-17.
In this maze, as Job discovered, God gives and takes away. He urges us to love– and then allows our hearts to be broken.
But what would we do if He didn’t? Would we miss seeing that– being with him in a maze called life… is far better than being in a wide open spaces– without him.
If God didn’t wall us in to a maze of our own frustration and failure, would we have any desire to find his amazing grace?
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