Blessed be Your name

Though we don't normally consider as such, the end of the book of Job is one of the better known theophanies or personal encounters with the Living God. We know Job's story because it speaks to the pain and sorrow and trouble of life. We identify with Job in his search for answers, and his complaint against God.
Job asks:
"Why has this happened?"
"What have I done?"
"Where are you God?
"How can you do this to me?"
"When will my suffering end?"

God answers "Who." He reminds us who Job's God is. The tension remains in the story because God never explains himself to Job, instead he explains Himself.

I don't mean to suggest offering pious platitudes about God in the midst of the real hardship and suffering that comes in life. We don't always get the answers we seek, and the ones we supply don't satisfy. Maybe God is redirecting from that age-old question "God, why have you...?" to "God, who are you?" In the midst of the trivia and trouble of life, something inside us cries out with Moses, "Lord, show me your glory!"