When You Cannot See the End, Where Are You?
- より子 逆瀬川
- Apr 19
- 1 min read
Job 7
Job keeps speaking.
“Is not man’s life on earth a time of hard service?”
“The nights are long, and the suffering goes on.”
He lies down, but finds no rest.
He waits for morning, but the night does not end.
Job is in a sufferingwith no end in sight.
When suffering continues for a long time,
a person is pressed by time.
How much longer?
Where does it end?
With no answer in sight,
the same hours repeat themselves.
A person longs for an ending.
Because if there is a limit,
they believe they can endure.
But when the end cannot be seen,
the heart keeps wavering.
Job is still speaking.
He keeps speaking—toward God.
Yet his words
are slowly being pulled toward the suffering.
The speaking has not stopped.
Only its center
has begun to waver.
The same thing
is happening now,
inside you.
A person seeks reasons.
They try to remain
inside explanation.
Because it feels safer there.
The more explanations pile up,
the further they drift
from God’s speaking.
In that place,
they can no longer remain
in God’s speaking.
Then—they turn back toward God.
There,
awareness is given.
When you cannot see the end,
where are you?
Do you remain
inside human explanation?
Or do you turn back toward God—
and stand in the place
where awareness is given?
Job is in a time
with no end in sight.
God has not yet spoken.
And still,
Job speaks.
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