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Job chapter 23 verse 10, but he knows the way that I take.

When he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.

This is a heavy chapter as Job is basically asking, where is God?

Where is God in the middle of this?

I want to speak to God.

I want to hear from God.

I want to be defended by God, and he really is expressing what we oftentimes feel when

we're walking through challenges, God, where are you?

Why is this happening?

I just want to see you and you to hear from me and to know that you hear from me, and

it's just this wrestling of faith, because Job knows, and he says at a different points

that he knows the Almighty hears him.

He knows that the Almighty God is his defender and redeemer, as we've seen before.

But in this verse, he says very clearly, God knows everything about my life.

What's led to this point?

Job's telling these so-called friends, God knows if what I am experiencing is a result

of my wickedness or my blamelessness.

God knows the way that I take it.

He knows where I am right now, and then he says, when he has tried me, I shall come out

as gold.

What a picture, Job's saying, I want to come out of this refined, I want to come out

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