Fearing the Lord. It is enough.
As I sat and read yet another article this afternoon about research study results on causes of schizophrenia, and read these lines about autoimmune research (something I greatly suspect in being a culprit in my son's affliction) I wanted to run away and hide out in the woods somewhere:
"The antibodies are rarely seen in people who have had schizophrenia for several years, suggesting that immuno-suppressive treatment needs to start early to work. Lennox speculates that after a while the antibodies die away but the damage persists."
Emotions, cold hard facts glaring from a page. Sentimental trinkets and earthly comforts never suffice to soothe the pains that pierce my heart with what feel like sharp knives.
And so I believe God put on my mind this week a certain passage from scripture. It seemed an odd passage for the "comfort" I thought I needed. Yet the more I thought of it, and after I read the commentary, I knew it was exactly what I needed...
“From where, then, does wisdom come?
And where is the place of understanding?
It is hidden from the eyes of all living
and concealed from the birds of the air.
Abaddon and Death say,
‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’
“God understands the way to it,
and he knows its place.
For he looks to the ends of the earth
and sees everything under the heavens.
When he gave to the wind its weight
and apportioned the waters by measure,
when he made a decree for the rain
and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
then he saw it and declared it;
he established it, and searched it out.
And he said to man,
‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom,
and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”
(Job 28:20-28 ESV)
Matthew Henry's commentary on this passage:
There is a two-fold wisdom; one hid in God, which is secret, and belongs not to us; the other made known by him, and revealed to man. One day's events, and one man's affairs, have such reference to, and so hang one upon another, that He only, to whom all is open, and who sees the whole at one view, can rightly judge of every part. But the knowledge of God's revealed will is within our reach, and will do us good. Let man look upon this as his wisdom, To fear the Lord, and to depart from evil. Let him learn that, and he is learned enough. Where is this wisdom to be found? The treasures of it are hid in Christ, revealed by the word, received by faith, through the Holy Ghost. It will not feed pride or vanity, or amuse our vain curiosity. It teaches and encourages sinners to fear the Lord, and to depart from evil, in the exercise of repentance and faith, without desiring to solve all difficulties about the events of this life.
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