Job Chapters 4-27
From Job chapters 4-27 we learn:
- How devastating our lack of understanding can be when we apply it categorically to the problem of suffering in the world!
- How desperately we need somebody to do something about the brokenness that causes our suffering!
- That our Redeemer lives!
- That no matter how tough life might get on this side of heaven... BECAUSE we have a redeemer-mediator who lives... though He slay us, yet we can hope in Him!
As I have mused these points this week and especially point one, I started by reading the words of Eliphaz to Job.“If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?” Job 4:2
I recall someone giving me this advice, about how and when to speak to the Jobs of this world. “Be slow to speak to people and quick to listen but quick to speak to God about people before speaking to them about God.”
19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. James 1:19-20
As far as points two, three and four are concerned, I just can’t get away from the nuggets of truths contained in some of the words Job himself speaks.
Can I suggest these words could form the basis for your need for an accurate (at least foundational) biblical theology: about God, mankind and sin, Christ, the Gospel and the inner transforming work of the Word and Spirit, which results in our justification, our sanctification and one day our glorification. Until then what about reciting these truths for living through the toughest of times.
I know that my redeemer lives!Job 19v25. I will see God! Job 19v26. How my heart yearns within me! Job 19v27. I will yet [hope in] praise him! Job 13v15
