Job 8-10
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A few thoughts from today:
~Blunt Bildad - Job’s
friend Eliphaz didn’t offer any help in his words, but Bildad is even
worse. He speaks of Job’s sons and
daughters and basically says what happened to them was their own fault and
because of their sin. Didn’t you
just kind of want to slap Bildad in the face?! And he tells Job that his suffering is because of his sin
because “Surely God does not reject a blameless man.” Keep in mind that later in the book God says he is angry
with Job’s friends and says that they did not speak what was true as Job
did.
~The battle inside of Job – It is like there is a battle going on
between Job’s head and his heart.
I’ve experienced that many times.
When you know something and believe it strongly, yet everything inside
you feels differently. He knew of
God’s might and power; He knew of God’s blessings; He knew of his own
innocence. Yet he battled with
feeling not only abandoned by God but that God was against him. I think Job is trying desperately to
cling to what He knows. The Student Bible quotes author Joseph
Bayly here, who having watched three of his sons die in their youth said,
“Don’t forget in the darkness what you’ve learned in the light.”
~Job’s wish for an arbitrator – In Chapter 9, verses 32-33, Job
says about God, “He is not a man like me that I might answer him, that we might
confront each other in court. If
only there were someone to arbitrate between us, to lay his hand upon us both.” If only … this hope and vision of Job’s
comes true through Jesus. Jesus is
the one mediator between man and God.
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