May 15, 2021
Author: Sylvia Gutierrez
As a teenager, Jaguar enjoyed watching documentaries about military campaigns and battles. One afternoon while I was in the kitchen, he approaches me with the biggest smile and giggles, “I never knew why, but now I do.” Puzzled, I just stood there looking at him. He goes on to explain that in watching these documentaries, he noticed something similar in many of them. He said many great battles in history took place during the coldest of temperatures, heavy snowfall, and/or worst of the worst weather. He said it left him in deep thought as to why they shared this common occurrence. It was something he continually pondered.
Well, that day Jaguar got his answer and he was thrilled to share it with me. He had been reading the book of Job in the Bible. Job was a righteous man who suffered great tragedy. In his heartbreak, he questions his faith and seeks to ask God about the injustice he feels. Instead of God answering him, God proceeds to ask Job a series of questions about creation. It is here where Jaguar found his answer. In Job 38:22-23 God asks Job, “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail, which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle?”
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