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I am in between Ash Wednesday services. Our Gospel reading talks about "our Father in secret" who will reward us for our anonymous acts.
Job says something that really reasonates with me, "This is going to work out for the best." But he has had enough of his friends and enough of God's silence and secretiveness. He is begging the Almighty to lay off him a bit and to answer his prayers directly.
In the Old Testament, people (like the prophet Joel in our 1st reading today) spoke of God as the cause of all things...good, bad, and ugly. A contemporary worldview makes room for the power of sin, death, and the devil when things go awry.
God certainly tests us sometimes, but he usually uses a situation that already exists, a stumbling block Satan or a fallen world (or our own sinfulness for that matter) has placed in our path...
"We know that all thing work together for good for those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose."
It may just take a while...
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