Today is the 27th day of August. I don't know why I had a brain freeze there. Yeah,

27th day of August. I'm just rooting myself in the present right now. I spend so much

of my life in other places I think we we all have a tendency to do that one.

Now is the gift and now is what's actually happening. So it's great to be here with you on the 27th day of August.

And it is a joy. Day of August.

And it is a joy and it is a privilege to have a place to be here around the global

campfire together as we just continue to move forward step by step day by day, allowing the scriptures

to speak into our lives.

And look at us, look back at January, look how far we've come, look how far we've come in the Bible.

Look at the Bible.

And it doesn't look away, does it?

Lots of things we may not understand, but the Bible does not shy away from anything.

That couldn't be more true for the territory that we are in right now.

We're working our way through the book of Job. And today we will read chapters 23 through 27. Then Job replied to his friends, my complaint is bitter again. Today I try hard to control my sighing. If only I knew where I could find God, I would go where he lives.

I would present my case to him.

I would have a mouthful of arguments.

I want to know the words he would use to answer me.

I want to understand the things he would say to me.

Would he sue me and hide behind great legal maneuvers?

No, he certainly would press charges against me.

Then decent people could argue with him, and I would escape my judgment forever.

However, if I go east, he isn't there. If I go west, I can't find him. If I go northward where is he at work? I can't observe him.

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