Job 3:1 KJV
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
We often think that Job's friends would have done a better job comforting if they had not said anything. That is true but it needs to be pointed out that the first one to speak was Job. He too would have been better off had he not spoken. His complaint opens the doors of the rest of this book, including God's rebuke of him toward the end of the book.
The story of Job is the account of the perfect being perfected.
It is impossible to deny the testimony of the scriptures concerning him in the first two chapters.
• Job is perfect and upright
• He fears God and eschews evil
But Job is still a man. And in that humanity his perfection could still be perfected.
God counts the saved as perfect in Christ. But our perfection sure needs perfecting.
Thank God He has not stopped perfecting us.
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
We often think that Job's friends would have done a better job comforting if they had not said anything. That is true but it needs to be pointed out that the first one to speak was Job. He too would have been better off had he not spoken. His complaint opens the doors of the rest of this book, including God's rebuke of him toward the end of the book.
The story of Job is the account of the perfect being perfected.
It is impossible to deny the testimony of the scriptures concerning him in the first two chapters.
• Job is perfect and upright
• He fears God and eschews evil
But Job is still a man. And in that humanity his perfection could still be perfected.
God counts the saved as perfect in Christ. But our perfection sure needs perfecting.
Thank God He has not stopped perfecting us.
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