As I sit on the front porch, listening to the light rain and the thunder in the distance, I allow my thoughts to be honest and ask my questions. Why do opinions seem to rule over humanity? Why does it seem like it’s harder to find kindness in an ordinary day that we work, travel, and do all the things? As the world seems weighty right now, the questions that I know the answers to swirl within my mind.

There will always be storms passing through and darkness will try to hide what is good, but one thing I know to be true is that there is One who is above all. His name is Jesus Christ. Is anyone worthy? Only One.

As questions rolled in my mind along with an afternoon thunderstorm, I was reminded of the book of Job.

Job was known as great among all those in the East. He had all the sheep, camels, oxen, donkeys that he needed. His fields were flourishing. He was surrounded by family, with seven sons and three daughters. And then the storms of life came in. Job went through some considerable heart wrenching things.

It’s heartbreaking to hear and see all that’s going on around us. My questioning over the heartwrenching has led me to heartfelt prayer. Prayer for others and prayers for myself, too, that I will live and walk in kindness, to do what Jesus would do.

I didn’t have a relationship with Jesus back in the 90’s but those W.W.J.D. makes sense to me now. What would Jesus do?

My questions begin to fade as I read what the LORD says to Job after the storm. Take some time to read Job 38 in its entirity. It will fill a heavy heart with hope.

God answers Job with questions.

Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimension? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone – while the morning stars sang together, and all the angels shouted for joy? – Job 38:4-7 NIV

Truly, read the entire chapter of Job 38. Your soul will be filled with the Spirit that flows hope through your very being. As I did, my questions faded just as the storm passed as I reflected on the front porch.

How mighty is our God.

Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it? – Job 38:12

Is hope rising within you?

Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep? – Job 38:16 NIV

Maybe your heart is leaping now.

Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for thunderstorm, to water a land where no man lives, a desert with no one in it, to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass? – Job 38:25-27

Blow through, Holy Spirit. Breathe your life on your sons and daughters.

Friend, is anyone worthy? Jesus Christ is worthy.

And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll? But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it.” Revelation 5:2

There is no one above or below. Only our Jesus has all power to reveal what’s in the scroll. He is the only one worthy. He is the One worthy to follow and the One we can put all our trust and hope in.

No matter the questions we have and no matter the condition of this earth, the only One worthy is among us. And when I remind myself that, I can look around and see that there is goodness around me.

When we honestly ask our questions to God and depend on Him for the answer, no matter what that may be, we can trust the response. His worthyness overtakes our need for an answer and we simply find ourselves undone in His presence.

The One who is worthy holds all things together. The One who is worthy is with us in the storms. He will answer us out of the storm. He is the only One who can open the scroll.