Gotta give it up
Even "miserable counselors" can get it right sometimes. These words from Eliphaz could not be more right. When faced with more questions than answers, more problems than solutions, more loss than gain, more death than life, we need to surrender our wisdom, our ways, and our wants to the Lord. Stop fighting and agree with the Lord. Stop trying to teach Him and learn from Him. We need to fix our priorities. Take the things that are most precious to us, the things that are more precious to us than He is, and let go of them. Then we will delight in the first and best thing, the Lord. We need to get our guidance, direction, and wisdom from Him. Stop reading the signs of circumstances, or going to others as our primary source of direction. Instead of being wise in our own eyes and the eyes of others we need to humble ourselves before the Lord. Then we will have the confidence of our God to do what He has directed us to do. As we do this, those who do not know Him will come to know him. Gravy.
