Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
The cry is Job's longing to find God and to come even to His seat, uttered while he cannot perceive where God is. That desire to approach Him holds fast in the midst of suffering and the feeling that God is hidden. It lives alongside trust that God knows his path and that, after being tried, He will bring him through so that he comes forth like gold.
The same longing belongs to those who feel they are walking in the shadow of the cross and wish they knew where to find God and come before Him. It is also the genuine cry of a soul that has lost the Lord's love and longs to find Him again. Such an appeal begins to reveal the person's condition as the Lord sees it, as wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.
As light exposes spiritual poverty and unrighteousness and self-sufficiency, the cry becomes an earnest plea for rescue. With hope and trust in Christ, anguish gives way to subdued prayer and faith in His power to save.
The cry is Job's longing to find God and to come even to His seat, uttered while he cannot perceive where God is. That desire to approach Him holds fast in the midst of suffering and the feeling that God is hidden. It lives alongside trust that God knows his path and that, after being tried, He will bring him through so that he comes forth like gold.
The same longing belongs to those who feel they are walking in the shadow of the cross and wish they knew where to find God and come before Him. It is also the genuine cry of a soul that has lost the Lord's love and longs to find Him again. Such an appeal begins to reveal the person's condition as the Lord sees it, as wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.
As light exposes spiritual poverty and unrighteousness and self-sufficiency, the cry becomes an earnest plea for rescue. With hope and trust in Christ, anguish gives way to subdued prayer and faith in His power to save.