Good morning, everyone!
Today I read Job 8-10.
In today's reading, Job's friends continue to censure him, and Job continues to answer them and cry out to God, maintaining his innocence.
Bildad now tells Job that God does not censure the innocent, and that if Job would only repent, God would relent.
Job 8:1-2 - Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, "How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?
So, Bildad is calling Job a liar, declaring that he must have sinned otherwise God would not have allowed this to happen.
As I said in an earlier post, with friends like this, Job does not need enemies.
Job's reply to his friends, as he cries out to God, is once again eloquent as he maintains his innocence, and begs God to turn His attention from him or to tell Job what he has done to deserve such suffering.
He wonders who can contend with God, how can he argue with the One who made all things. Though he does not understand, and he asks God to deliver him, he does not curse God, or stop believing.
Job 9:32-33 - "For He is not a man as I am that I may answer Him, that we may go to court together. There is no umpire between us, who may lay his hand upon us both."
Job recognizes that God is above men, and that none can contend with Him, that there is no judge between them for God is the Highest Judge.
Job maintains his innocence, his righteousness, and his faith, even though his friends' words might have caused him to doubt.
How many of us can honestly say that we could behave as Job did?
I can't. When things go wrong, sometimes I doubt myself. I doubt God. And that's what Satan wants.
This is one of the most important lessons to be taken from the book of Job.
There are so many lessons to be learned from the book of Job, and when we finish the book, I'll share some that I learned the first time I read Job.
I hope you'll join me tomorrow when I read Job 11-13.
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