"People think it is holding on that makes you stronger, but sometimes it's letting go." Anonymous

Has anything ever happened in your life that you just couldn't understand why God would let it happen? Like the mine explosion in New Zealand. Almost 30 people died that day and one was a teenager who had just turned 17 years old. Many people lost their jobs and families and can you imagine how they tried to figure out why it happened. How do you figure out what to do when your world is falling apart? Job knows exactly what it felt like to loose his family, house, health, friends, and his ability to work, but if you read the book you will see that Job was frantically looking for answers. Job was looking for more than just, why did this happen, or, why me, but he was looking for God to help him understand the situation. He was looking for something to hold on to when life falls apart. He was looking for wisdom and understanding. Job said "People know where to mine silver and how to refine gold. They know here to dig iron from the earth and how to smelt copper from rock...but do people know where to find wisdom? Where can they find understanding?" Job tells us that wisdom is "...not found among the living...it cannot be bought...its a priceless treasure from above." He also says that "only God understands the way to wisdom, and He alone knows where it lives."

I want to encourage you this morning with all that is going on in our world today that God still knows what He is doing. "People think it is holding on that makes you stronger, but sometimes it's letting go." I want to encourage you to just let everything go, whether you understand it or not, and just let God take you where He wants you to go. I want to let you read how capable God is to take and fix the problems that are going on in your life right now. Check out Job 28:25-28. "When God gave power to the wind and measured the water, when He made rules for the rain and set a path for a thunderstorm to follow, then He looked at wisdom and decided its worth; He set wisdom up and tested it. Then He said to humans, 'The fear of the Lord is wisdom; to stay away from evil is understanding.' " If God gives power to the wind and sets the paths for the thunderstorms, which He does, then I do believe that He can take care of anything we have to throw His way. God tells us that wisdom is to fear the Lord and understanding is to stay away from the life that doesn't walk with Him. I want you to look a little further with me though. This blew me away. These next couple of verses put my thinking back in perspective. I try and handle anything that comes my way and we, as a Christian nation, have put the work of God into our hands and we are not capable of that task. I want to point out to you what God says to Job about trying to take things into his own hands. Look at Job 40:9-14. "Are you as strong as God? Can your voice thunder like His? If so, then decorate yourself with glory and beauty, dress in honor and greatness as if they were clothing. Let your great anger punish; look at the proud and make them humble. Brush the wicked wherever they are. Bury them all in the dirt together; cover their faces in the grave. If you can do that, then I Myself will praise you, because you are strong enough to save yourself." If we could save ourselves, and if we could understand why things happen to us, and if we were strong enough to overcome this world, then why did Jesus have to die? Listen Jesus paid the price to save you and me and He is just waiting on you to let go of the things you have been holding on to and let Him take care of everything in your life. You still wont have the answers but you will have true wisdom when you understand the power that God has and that should be enough for us all.