Pride and Humility

Job was an interesting character... he was strong when everything was taken away from him..."Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."
And then his wife talks to him and his friends talk to him and he gets to thinking to himself that he doesn't deserve this because he's righteous and that the Lord is punishing him undeservedly. I had forgotton that after his friends and wife said all they had to say, there was this other guy, Elihu. He was younger than everyone and a bystander until he couldn't take it anymore... "But Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God. He was also angry with the three friends, because they had found no way to refute Job, and yet had condemned him. Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job because they were older than he. But when he saw that the three men had nothing more to say, his anger was aroused."
And then Elihu goes on for chapters about how Job has no right to put himself above God. There really aren't enough people like that these days.
So what drove me to read in Job was that I was looking for times when God spoke about His love after He had allowed trial. I knew that at the end of the book God speaks for chapters in the ultimate "Who do you think you are?" rebuke. So I read through the whole thing. And guess what? It starts with who do you think you are, and ends with who do you think you are. It's the most humbling passage I think I can read.
Knowing this, I think to myself (an often-time struggle) that I am tired of waiting for things....
"Who do you think you are?" I hear. My view of God is skewed to think He will always answer my heart's cry with words of comfort. He is a loving God, but He is GOD. It is ironic to me that Satan wanted to test Job. He took everything away from Job and Job says, "Blessed be the name of the Lord." But as time goes on you know what got Job in the end? It was the pride... the same way Satan fell to begin with. God put Job in his place and Job responded very humbly because he realized how very small and powerless to be righteous that he actually is. Pride is still the toughest downfall. It is not understanding your place in relation to God. That's why the study of God is so so important. The more I understand my place in relation to God, the less I will be caught up with immature impatience of circumstance and the more I can get on with doing things to please Him and to bring Him glory.