Scripture: Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty? They are higher than the heavens above—what can you do? They are deeper than the depths below—what can you know? Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea. —Job 11:7-9 Devotional: So many ways of “being” with people help us to “know them”. The best relationships are formed from a bit of pressure. The best love is often fostered in a bit of tension, and the closest bonds are often formed through correction and re-direction. To know someone intimately is to work through the particularities of them that might be problematic to you. To know someone intimately is to hear, listen, and to decide to walk with them, even past what you don’t understand about them. We’ve talked about “MYSTERY” in our devotion together. The truth is, there are so many things I am not sure about concerning Christianity, or religion in general. So many wonders I have about God. Job, in his suffering, was of many different minds, at different spaces in his journey. Job trusted God much more than he trusted the spaces of torment that he found himself in. There are deep depths to suffering, to pain. There is even deeper depth and no limits to God’s long suffering and dedication to God's people. I have questions and some rebuttals, as it pertains to the space Job finds himself in. I am unclear that God, God's self, caused such suffering for job. I am sure though, that God, God's self, placed an anchor inside of Job, a trust that remained through it all, and restoration that built an even stronger divine relationship between Job and his God. God's measure of love is higher than the earth and wider than the sea. Are the limits of God about how far he will push you? Or are the limits of God a matter of how far she will go for you? I don’t believe its God's desire to tempt or torture us. But I do know God will go into the depths of our tempting and torture, to rescue us. And for that I am grateful! Prayer/Reflection: God's desire is to build an authentic relationship with us. However God needs to prove God's self to us and I believe God will! Ask God to show God's self to you this week. Ask God to change your perspective from knowing Him as the God who tests, tortures and torments to the God who holds, heals, and thinks no mountain is too high to find us. May the God of judgment, become the God of deep extravagant grace!