It’s Friday, and here I sit.  The blank screen mockingly stares at me, daring me to come up with something to fill it.  Plenty of topics come to mind.  But there’s nothing there.  Guess that’s what they call writer’s block.  Do you ever feel like that when it comes to your problems?  You seem to be in a dead-end alley.  You know there’s an answer out there somewhere, but you sure can’t find it.  Even your prayers seem to be lost in an empty nothingness.  Did you know that Job felt just like that?  Listen to some of his heart-wrenching words from Job 23:1-9.  “Even today is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. Oh that I knew where I might find Him!”  Or how about, “Behold, I go forward, but He is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive Him:  On the left hand, where He doth work, but I cannot behold Him: He hideth Himself on the right hand, that I cannot see Him….”  At the moment, it seemed to Job that God was nowhere to be found.  Now if that’s as far as Job went, he would have suffered a miserable end.  But in verse 10, Job goes on to give you this glorious thought: “But He knoweth the way that I take: when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold”!  He reminded both himself and you that it doesn’t matter if you feel as if you can’t find God.  He is still there.  Even if you can’t see God, He still sees you, and He knows right where you are and just what you need.  He’s still in control.  He’s still working, molding, helping, and holding in spite of your limited ability to know exactly what He is doing.  And you know what?  Trusting verse 10 will make the despair of the previous 9 verses fade away!  I guess writer’s block isn’t so bad after all….