It's great being back at the Sunday night Bible study at the University of Tennessee campus. Meeting such great students as Matthew, "Frodo", Amy, and others is a real boost to my spirit each week. We meet in Reese Hall for an in-depth look at world religions, philosophies, theories, and the Bible's answers to their many questions. This is a ministry that I have wanted to do for years, bring to mind the verse in the Psalms: "Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart." (37:4)
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The words of preacher Charles Spurgeon:
In Job's uttermost extremity he cried after the Lord. The longing desire of an afflicted child of God is once more to see his Father's face. His first prayer is not "O that I might be healed of the disease which now festers in every part of my body!" nor even "O that I might see my children restored from the jaws of the grave, and my property once more brought from the hand of the spoiler!" but the first and uppermost cry is, "O that I knew where I might find HIM, who is my God! that I might come even to His seat!" God's children run home when the storm comes on. It is the heaven-born instinct of a gracious soul to seek shelter from all ills beneath the wings of Jehovah. "He that hath made his refuge God," might serve as the title of a true believer...
"O that I knew where I might find Him!" —Job 23:3
Powerful words from a London preacher of years past. Just as Job did, crying not for physical healing but for God's nearness, I want first and foremost of all to see His gentle closeness and mercifuil ways to me whenever the sky grows dark in my life.
