What do you seek when you are in trouble? Who do you seek when things are going badly? Where do you run to find safety? To whom do you go to find solace? Are you going to the right place, the right people, and seeking the right things? Have you considered going to God?
When things go badly, we often turn to people we know, even if we cannot always trust them. Some people will turn to drugs or alcohol. Some eat or shop. Some hide their misery. Many seek only a temporary solution rather than something that will last.
Rather than only looking for human solutions to our troubles, we should take a page out of Job’s play book. He sought God, longing to meet him and lay out his case before him. Job was sure that God would listen to him. He wanted to go to God’s place to stand before him. Job knew that God could solve all his problems.
We can go to God at any time, and we should definitely go to him when we are facing troubles. We can step into the throne room and plead our case before him. We can rest assured that he will answer us, even if not in the timeframe we want. We can also trust that God always has our best interest at heart.
Going before is for our sake, for our conscience. God already knows. But we need to go before him to acknowledge him as God and to get our concerns off our chest. He is the perfect counselor. As we trust him with what is frustrating us or getting us down, our trust increases when he answers us. We can go to our family, friends, or trusted advisors. But don’t forget to go to God, too.
I pray we all have people we trust in our lives. I pray we know we can trust God with everything. I pray each one of us will step into God’s throne room and plead our cases before him. Trust God. Go to God with everything. Take your troubles to God. Know that God has your best interest at heart.
Job 23:3
Oh, that I knew where I might find him,
that I might come even to his dwelling!
Marty Pressey 