SILENCE
Today's reading: Job 29-30

"I cry to you, O God, but you don't answer me. I stand before you, and you don't bother to look." Job 30:20 NLT

I can find 'when' they believe Job would have been written, but I cannot find how long this book might have lasted from the beginnings of chapter one to the end of chapter forty-two.

How long did Job have to endure feeling cut off from God?

How long did he live feeling like he was being deprived of oxygen?

How long was this 'semester of sorrow'?

Would I be surprised to know it was all over a period of just a few weeks?

Would Job tell me it seemed to drag on for years, centuries, eons?

Would God tell me it lasted just long enough for His glory to be revealed, His decision to be seen as one that touched the world and His ways higher, much higher than our own?

In The Waiting by Greg Long
Pain
The gift nobody longs for, still it comes
And somehow leaves us stronger
When it's gone away
Pray
I try and pray for Your will to be done
But I confess it's never fast enough for me
It seems
the hardest part is waiting on You
When what I really want
Is just to see Your hand move
I want a peace beyond my understanding
I want to feel it fall like rain
In the middle of my hurting
I want to feel Your arms as they surround me
And let me know that it's okay
To be here in this place
Resting in the peace that only comes
In the waiting
Time
Time to let it go and just believe
Trusting in what no one else but You can see
Free
Freedom from the fears that close me in
When I can't get beyond where I have been, but then
Again
The silence doesn't mean that I'm alone
As long as I can hear
That I am still Your own