AFTER SEVEN DAY JOB SPEAKS

Job 3:1-16

 

After seven days sitting with his three friends, the long-awaited sound of Job’s voice is heard, and this man Job and you recall what God has said about him after all his children are dead and his wealth taken from him in one day.  “And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?  He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.”  Do you recall Satan’s reply skin for skin?  All that a man has he will give for his life.   And God said, you must spare his life.

 

As we explore these verses of Job speaking be very careful with your judgement of Job.  What we are is a witness to is a superhuman struggle and Job is a mere pawn.  Also remember Job has  also lost his health and any role of leadership and has been ignored by even his servants.

 

Job’s words;  “After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.  Job said: “Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived.’  Let that day be darkness!  May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it.”  At this point one might come to this conclusion, Job does not understand what is taking place, life as he has known it is gone and yet he has been in right standing with both God and man. 

Job is telling his friend, it would have been better if he had not been born, if only he could have understood the value of his story to the millions that would read it.  Job’s life made a different to many who he touched in his day, and to those who have studied this book.

Shall we end chapter 2 with verses 25-26, “For the thing that I fear comes upon me,
 and what I dread befalls me.  I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes.”  Job is a total mess with his emotions and no doubt is in a deep depression, and he wonders when the next thing will happen?  Now the question all must answer, as a follower of Christ, what would you be doing if this were you?

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice