No understanding of how God would use his story

 

 

 

 

 

Job 10:18-22

 

February 18, 2020

 

 

“Why did you bring me out from the womb?  Would that I had died before any eye had seen me and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.   Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer before I go—and I shall not return—to the land of darkness and deep shadow,  the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.”

 

Job has moved from being rhetorical to exposing his ignorance, in his deep emotional state he is talking like a man who has no understanding of the Father’s love for him.  Let’s give thought to his question, “Why did you bring me out from the womb?”  What impact has Job’s life had on every generation that hears or reads the account?  Did his life matter?  The answer is a strong yes, and so does your life, and mine.   What insights we grasp from Job’s account, first God knew him by name, and Job’s righteousness was a topic in heaven.  As parents we have all bragged about our children, that’s what God is doing with the enemy of our souls.  Second, we see that the old serpent, the devil has always been up to what Jesus shares with us in John 10:10a, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.”  Do not miss this truth, it was very in doubt with the Father how this would end, but the devil thought he had a chance to teach God a lesson about His creation.

 

Also, what a lesson on friendship and the importance of just showing up, but not to come with a fix-it attitude, but with prayer and compassion.  Job’s three friends began by keeping quiet and praying and weeping for their friend Job who was in great pain and sorrow.  Then they became Mr. Fixit and then the judge, and we have seen from heaven's view, they brought judgment on themselves.

 

We also, hear Job telling God as if He could, to leave him alone, and once more Job shows his ignorance of eternal things, but you and I are on this side of the Cross, and Job as all who were before the Cross were looking toward the Messiah.  This has been a great study and I have for many nights had trouble sleeping I’ve searched my heart and mind to see if I’m passing the test, as we are told to do in 2 Corinthians 13:5.

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice