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“Or who enclosed the sea with doors when it went out from the womb, bursting forth; when I made a cloud its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling bands, and I placed boundaries on it and set a bolt and doors, and I said, ‘As far as this point you shall come, but no farther; and here your proud waves shall stop’?”

—Job 38:8–11

Job is a hard book to read, and none of us want to be in his situation, but the Lord’s answers to Job’s questions are still comforting. We need to be reminded that our God is the one who built the foundations of the earth, the one who arranged the seas, and the one who holds them in their place.

When we consider his power, knowledge, and goodness in these mighty things, it’s so much easier to rest in his sovereignty.

We no longer have to understand what’s happening when we trust the one who’s in control.

It doesn’t mean we must enjoy the difficulties in this life. It simply means we see that the great God of the universe is not unaware of or unable to redeem those difficult things and that the wonder of our eternal lives to come will far overshadow this suffering.

As the Lord says to the sea, “this far and no farther,” so he says to the suffering of Job. And so he says to Satan of our difficulties: “You can only seek to steal, kill, and destroy my people in this life. In eternity, they will be fully healed and fully mine—safe forever. No more tears, pain, or sorrow.”

Rest in the forever that comes after “this far and no farther.”

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