Thank you Rosie..... I sure needed to hear that this morning.
I think I understand a little more about possibly why Satan was allowed to pester Job...(to put it mildly for sure).
Sometimes, we just need a little pestering from someone else in our lives, to bring out some things from inside our own selves that otherwise we would not see... since our eyes were becoming blinded by the brightness of the good stuff. Focus too much on the good things... and you can start to forget that the other stuff is still always there too.... underneath the rugs, stuffed in closets, or shoved away in drawers.
Sooner or later... we will have to look at all the places inside ourselves when a little "house cleaning" is made necessary. Nothing like a little storm to come blowing things around and make you see things that you let yourself ignore before.
MIL is moving... and is going through boxes, drawers and closets like she ain't done in years. So it is with us and spiritual housecleaning. Yep... sooner or later... something will come to us by God's hand to get those places inside us faced, in the open, and cleaned out in the same way she is having to do the physical places.
It's also kind of like a couple of the dishes I have on the counter waiting to be cleaned out and washed, that have sat there with a bit of food still in them. The longer you let the bad stuff stay... the stinkier it gets. We get to stinking spiritually... but oft times we are not even aware of it, and we go about our merry way thinking... it's not bad, there's nothing wrong. But God sure knows different.... He can smell stink a mile away from us... yet, He's close enough to live inside us... so goodness.... when it gets bad enough to bring our attention to it... we best pay attention and get the rubber gloves of prayer and repentence on, and get things cleaned up.
And like with Job... sometimes, He is gracious enough to bring out some things in us, that while at the present may not be causing any problem... good very well do so in the future if it's not taken care of now. And He sees on down the road... and so if we let Him, if we are willing to listen to the warnings... we can fix things early enough to keep from tripping over ourselves later on.
Now... like I do everytime I fall on my face.... I'll get back up, and try again... to do it better the next time. God's mercy is so good.... and I'm so very grateful for it.
Hugs, Grace