This morning I was reading in the book of Job, and I came across the following verses. "God might kill me, but I have no other hope. I am going to argue my case with him. But this is what will save me--I am not godless. If I were, I could not stand before him" (13:15-16).
Those two verses struck me. The statement, "God might kill me, but I have no other hope" is incredible. We must come to that place in our life where we so desperately long after God that we will seek His face even if it costs us our very life because without Him we are nothing. What a prayer!
It's similar to the story of Jacob wrestling with God. All night he wrestled with an unknown man. All night Jacob tried to get away. Then dawn was about to break and finally the unknown man touched Jacob's hip and it was wrenched out of socket. In that moment Jacob knew he had been wrestling with God. In that moment Jacob knew he was outmatched. In tht moment Jacob knew that if the sun rose and he saw the face of God that he would surely die. But, in that moment Jacob knew he had finally found what he needed and he wasn't going to let go until he had been blessed by God.
Both Job and Jacob knew something that we so often seem to struggle with, life without God is not worth living. That is why they were willing to die in their pursuit of God, because without God their lives were not worth living. May we cling to God with reckless abandon and be willing to loose it all so that we might receive Him.
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