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SAA Notes
Passionate preaching alone should not awe you. Look at the content. In verse 36:21, Elihu says that Job seems to prefer evil to affliction. This misses the point of Job’s anguish and distress. Job believes that God has rejected him and done this deliberately. Job does not know what we know – that Satan is the agent of his distress.
SJA Notes
* Sovereign God, You tell us to forgive others. Please help us to do this today.
“The Almighty – we cannot find him;”
We come to the last passage of human debate in the book of Job.
Elihu has some great descriptions of God – Thundering wondrously with His voice, doing great things that we cannot comprehend.
These things are true!
But even with his abundant fervour and passion Elihu misses the true reality.
We remember back to the beginning of Job, the true heavenly realities that are going on around and about Job.
Satan has been given reign by God to grieve Job. This is a hard word to us.
Elihu finishes up with,
“The Almighty – we cannot find him;”
Praise God that this is NOT true!
That in Jesus we find God.
Jesus tells us in John 14,
“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'”
Jesus is the ONLY way we find God.
* Gracious Lord God,
Your Name is holy – Please help us to hallow it.
Your kingdom is one of truth and peace – Please help us to be kingdom people.
Your will is sovereign and true – Please help us to submit underneath it and go about it all our days.
Amen.