I read this passage a few weeks ago, wrote it down, but didn't know what to say about it. I still don't. I've been thinking about it: What would my life look like if God left me alone? I guess it is what life in hell is like. What would the universe look like if God left it alone? I picture some kind of alternate universe movie, A World Without God.
I don't know. But this passage and the Book of Job says one important thing about God: A man can tell God - the Lord of the Universe - to go away and instead of doing that, He blesses him immeasurably and demonstrates His love, generosity, and mercy:
And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold. And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. He had also seven sons and three daughters. And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch. And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations. And Job died, an old man, and full of days. - Job 42:10 - 17
Please Lord...never leave me alone.
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