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Job chapter 42 verses 5 and 6.

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.

Oh, this is the conclusion. dust and ashes.

This is the conclusion of the book of Job.

Well not the ultimate conclusion after this God restores Job's health and blesses Him with, well, in just so many different ways.

But this is the climax in a sense of the book because Job at the end of all he has suffered

says now I see you. He had struggled all throughout the book to see God. And in the end, that is where the whole book lands with Job seeing God and not just seeing

God, but savoring God and being satisfied in God in a way he never could have imagined, in a way he

repents, he turns from himself and all his tendencies to not trust in God.

I read this and I think about when I have walked through challenging days,

through suffering and not anywhere near the extent the Job had.

But I get maybe to the end of one of those seasons and God brings me through it and I look back and I regret the times

when I look back and I see that I didn't trust God, that I thought I knew better than God, that maybe even

I didn't press in and pray, or my thoughts were just not right about God.

I find myself doing what Job is doing here to repent.

And I find myself praying God when I walk through suffering in the days to come help me to trust in you.

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