WHEN I WAS A SINNER, unwise, ungodly I thought this name would have pronounced job… you know, the word for an occupation. When I became a Christian Job became a man I deeply admired. I cherish the statements he makes.
I admire Job because he found himself totally disgusted with himself and repented in dust and ashes!
Selah.
Here’s a man who deeply and lovingly feared God and shunned evil. It is stated in the Word he was upright and blameless. It is true for God’s Word is inerrant, infallible – Jesus is the Word.
Job suffered tremendously as you should already know for yourself, if not, study the man. Yet he knew his sufferings were not due to his own actions. He claimed that throughout this saga named after him. What’s so very interesting to me when it’s all been said and done is that God never gave Job the so sought-after answer to the very question plaguing him presumably as much as the deaths of his beloved sons and daughters, the loss of sheep and servants, never forgetting the man himself so covered with painful sores from the souls of his feet to the crown of his head. Why?
The Bible says Job maintained his integrity.
Beloved: JOB NEVER BLAMED GOD! I love it!
Job 38:1
Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said: “Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.
God told Job: “Brace yourself like a man…”
Job had to brace himself like a man for he knew he wasn’t God.
Job 38:21
Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!
God’s challenges are always right, holy and perhaps, even at times, sarcastic. Friends, that sarcasm is one of His wonderful tools to learn! Never be offended at the Word of God!
Job 42:-16
“I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted. You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know. “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me. My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you. Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”
Job became one of my forever heroes because he loved God more than his children, his servants, his wife (and sometimes that’s a very easy thing to do!) and his wealth. He loved God. Job never blamed his Lord; he just wanted to know why? A question never answered. And Job was content with that.
Selah.
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