Job 8:1-7
“Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: “How long will you say these things,
and the words of your mouth be a great wind? Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right? If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression. If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy, if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you
and restore your rightful habitation. And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.”
In my short journey as one who desires to allow Jesus to be my only authority, I ask Him into my life 50 years ago but for much of that time I had no real understanding of how much Jesus loves me. How much I could trust Him with all that He has entrusted me with and look to His authority, and yet often to my shame I listen to Channel One, the deception channel. At this time in life I’m learning to be on guard against the guy or gal that has all the answers about God and life on planet earth. Many or like Job’s friend Bildad the Shuhite who believed he must speak for God and be His defense attorney.
Bildad not only attacked Job for his words but without knowledge implies children got what they deserved, for God’s words are perfect and His ways of justice, so not only did Job’s children sin but Job must have also.
If you have a friend like Bildad, you might want to investigate the words coming from his mouth by examining all that they state about God by what the Scriptures give us insights and never allow them to tell you that what some scholar believes, if it is not in the Scriptures, he nor a scholar have anymore insights than you.
Do you get it, Bildad had Job’s problem figured out and this is what Job needed to do was get a little purer and more upright and ask God for mercy and God would do just as Job ask, that is Bildad’s logic in his role of being God’s self-appointed spokesman. Watch out for the Bildads!
From the Back Porch,
Bob Rice
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