October 8, 2023
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Reading along with us in Job? Here’s today’s reading:
Job 19 (NIV)
Job
1 Then Job replied:
2“How long will you torment me
and crush me with words?
3 Ten times now you have reproached me;
shamelessly you attack me.
4 If it is true that I have gone astray,…..Continue Reading
Job`s so called friends keep reproaching him in fact he calls them to account for they have done it 10 times. They keep magnifying themselves over him. I guess this makes them feel better about themselves. In their own eyes this could never happen to them for they are righteous in their own eyes. They are not wicked like Job so he deserves it. How foolish this is of them. Job is in such straits that his whole family, friends, servants, and even his wife can`t be around him. Even young children are despising him and calling him names. Although they might be following their parents lead. For often times children hear how their parents say something about someone and copy it. Lets not be negative around children. Job however is not at all sure why God is allowing any of this to happen to him. But he makes statement that if only his words were written down in a book. This is exactly what happened. God must had shown all this to him with clarity after the Lord restored his family, friends, health, and wealth. But there is also an amazing testimony by Job in verses 25-27. For he says that my Redeemer lives and that he will see Him with his own eyes after his body is destroyed by worms. Also that his Redeemer will stand at the latter days upon the earth. Sounds like the Second Coming to me. I think that Job with his hope upon the Lord that he believed that there would be more after death and that he would be with the Lord. There also seems to be a growing faith in Job. God bless us also as we look to our Redeemer Jesus Christ.
Job 19
How lonely Job is with everyone forsaking him including God, or so he thinks/feels. It is truly sad to see him describe God as One who is opposed to him and yet how easy to understand how he could think that understanding who God is in the context of all that has happened to him. So glad of the assurances we have in the New Testament about God not leaving or forsaking us. And how important it is for us to make sure we never kick people when they are down but always look to bring the mercy and grace of God to others, the same mercy and grace that we have received ourselves. And yet Job also does resolve in ultimate hope in God, affirming that his Redeemer lives and that he will see Him one day. It is a confidence that we can be secured in as well. The blessed hope that we have in the midst of whatever circumstances we might face.
Job 19
Job’s prayer was realized….eventually.
“Oh, that my words were written!
Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!
That they were engraved on a rock
With an iron pen and lead, forever!
For I know that my Redeemer lives,
And He shall stand at last on the earth;
And after my skin is destroyed, this I know,
That in my flesh I shall see God,
Whom I shall see for myself,
And my eyes shall behold, and not another.”
Job is so lonely and I love that his prayer at the end of the chapter is reflective of the fact that he knows even when it feels like all of man has deserted you, God is still there! When we feel like there is nowhere else to turn God is still an option, always our answer, and we see that so evident here for Job!
Job 19 Job is hurting asking his friends and God to have pity for him. Job’s friends had accused him of sin to make him feel guilty, his friends loved him but they weren’t being helpful by blaming Job for all he had been through and now Job is questioning God. He believes God is treating him as an enemy, when he should know this is from Satan.
Job 19
Words have the power to crush a person. Let’s remember that when we are associating with people who are dealing with difficult circumstances. I know that my Redeemer lives. It is amazing how many references to Christ are made in the book of Job. And that is the hope we have when we are suffering.