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**Job 6:20** — *"They are confounded because they had hoped; their arrival brings disappointment."*
Job speaks here of desert caravans — travelers who crossed brutal terrain trusting that a particular oasis would hold water. It did not. They arrived parched, and the wells were dry.
Hope misplaced in outcomes rather than in the One who holds outcomes — this is the quiet grief behind Job's words. The caravan did not fail. The *expectation* did. And that distinction matters deeply.
Scripture reminds us that hope anchored in God's covenant character never confounds (Romans 5:5). But hope anchored in *circumstances resolving as we planned* — that hope will meet its dry well eventually.
The shepherd's wisdom is not to stop hoping. It is to examine *where* the hope is rooted before the long sojourn begins.
Consider the wells you are trusting today, and whether they are fed by springs that do not run dry.
Job speaks here of desert caravans — travelers who crossed brutal terrain trusting that a particular oasis would hold water. It did not. They arrived parched, and the wells were dry.
Hope misplaced in outcomes rather than in the One who holds outcomes — this is the quiet grief behind Job's words. The caravan did not fail. The *expectation* did. And that distinction matters deeply.
Scripture reminds us that hope anchored in God's covenant character never confounds (Romans 5:5). But hope anchored in *circumstances resolving as we planned* — that hope will meet its dry well eventually.
The shepherd's wisdom is not to stop hoping. It is to examine *where* the hope is rooted before the long sojourn begins.
Consider the wells you are trusting today, and whether they are fed by springs that do not run dry.