Reading
SAA Notes
Bildad torments Job by his fixed belief in Job’s secret sin. “Can this be my friend? He knows me so little.” Consider 19:21,22 as advice on dealing with friends, whom you believe have erred. Job displays the faith of Abraham. 19:25-27 are a great testimony to the God of resurrection – many centuries before Christ.
SJA Notes
* Dear God, please help us be salt of the earth today, showing forth Jesus in how we live.
“For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God.”
Job continues to grind out his sorrow, plumbing the depths of what he is experiencing.
But he returns to a solid truth.
Even in the valley of the shadow of death (Psalm 23), Job maintains faith in God.
We read here the most wonderful of resurrection proclamations!
Job did not trust in a dead and dusty god, a religion of works and human-invented fables.
His God – our God – is alive!
We can cry with Job, “I know that my Redeemer lives”!
We can know Jesus. His righteousness, of His death, blood and life – That He has redeemed us from darkness into light!
We rest in the same hope Job had.
That this life is not the end. Our death here on earth is not the end.
Hallelujah – Yet in our flesh we will see God!
* God Above,
Please show us today what You want us to know from Your word.
Please fix within us a steady and sure hope, in Your resurrection power.
Fix our eyes on You today Lord God, please.
Amen.