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Dear Gentle Reader,
It has been hectic around here recently so you have either read some of my past gems or you have sat around my coffee pot waiting for me to pour some of my special brew with the now famous Irish cream cheese muffins.
But if the truth be told its really all about the adventures of the 2000 year old man and you. Job is our hero and what is the significance of the inclusion of this book of woes and sadness. It’s this second significance and the relationship of your Creator that captures my attention. Although that aerial voice from that cyclone did not provide an explanation. It does evinced that God had been watching, hearing, caring. Job would immediately realize this with a new vividness. What a tumult of emotion and rush of regret that he had allowed Eliphaz and Bildad and Zophar to aggravate him into saying rash things about the unconcern of God! Under the power of that dread voice he now knew in a flash, and without any telling how wrong they had been.
Yet deeper than all else, the speaking of that hitherto silent heaven meant to Job that God felt concern and sympathy! Job and his grief meant enough to God to cause him to speak! Doubtless this is one of the main reasons, why in the ruling and overruling purpose of God, this story of Job was preserved-that men might know through this fact of Divine concern and sympathy.
It is not that God does not care for His own children but that he watches each of us go through the trials which can make us better people and while we may groan over what we are going through it is in the crowning demonstration was given in the cross of our elder brother the Lord Christ Jesus.
There is a third and even deeper significance in this speech from the storm-cloud and it once again arises from the strange seeming absence of any explanation to Job. The Divine purpose is to bring Job to the point when Job comes to the end of himself where he rest in God Himself. Apart from explanation. If only Job can be brought there, where he trust God as being absolutely righteous and benevolent over against all unexplained adversities, then Satan’s slanderous libel (in the prologue) is proved false, and the devil is defeated. Job does get there, as Chapter 42 shows; and we are meant to get there too. Baffling enigmas abound in this life of even the most godly Christians. In the final analysis faith is to trust God himself over against all seeming contradictions and in the absence of all present explanations. This is not Blind faith which has no anchor. We have now a completed Scriptural revelation that throws much light on the human condition, and the Satanic activity behind the evil that we see all around us. It is God who rules and overrules and those who have eyes to see will see one day the evil in this world eradicated. Most wonderful of gentle reader, God has shown us, in Christ, how He himself suffers with us. Each step along life’s journey. We are told in the Book of Hebrews ‘God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;"
There are things which God cannot divulge to us at present. It is faith which causes us to cling to those curtains of those impenetrable mysteries. The victory of faith is to rest with full confidence in God Himself.
More to come
