Job 42:9 (KJV) Faith Has an Influence

Job 42:9 (KJV)

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.

In the end of this event, Job did see the Lord more clearly than he ever had before. And, in the end, God had restored to Job everything he had lost. But one other great thing happened:

Job’s friends came to obey the Lord as well.

I’m thinking just now of the Apostle Paul in that shipwreck. He was there through no fault of his own.

• He had done nothing worthy of prison.
• He had urged them not to take the ship to sea.

But he was there nonetheless.

And it was through his faith that everyone survived, safe and back on land.

Everything Job endured led finally to his friends coming to know the Lord, to worship Him honestly, and to do as the Lord commanded them. Everything Job endured led finally to Job’s prayers on their behalf.

We can become so focused on ourselves and what we face, the outcomes of our decisions and the consequences of life’s struggles, that we lose focus of God’s work in others.

Stay true to the Lord in the midst of your troubles. See what God might do through your faith to bring others to faith.

#Job42v9 #FaithInTrials #TrustTheLord #GodWorksThroughFaith #StayTrueToGod

Faith Has an Influence: Stay Faithful—Someone Else May Need It

Could God be using your trial to work in someone else’s life? Leave a comment and share what the Lord has taught you through a difficult season. 

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Job 42:9 (KJV) Faith Has an Influence

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Job 41:10-11 (KJV) The Lesson of Leviathan

Job 41:10-11 (KJV)

None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

The subject is Leviathan. I believe him to be a sea dinosaur, perhaps related to the crocodile and alligator, but not the same, for sure. An animal so fierce that no one dare stir him up, but that is now extinct. Nothing on this earth exists forever. No might nor power of the earth matches that of God. They will all pass away, but never God nor His Word.

In the midst of this discourse on Leviathan, God speaks of Himself and says,

“Who then is able to stand before me?”

“Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him?”

and

“Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.”

If man cannot stand against Leviathan, how can he stand before the God who created him?

If everything under heaven belongs to God, what could man possibly give God that God did not already own? God owes us nothing. Everything we possess came from Him in the first place.

The creature belongs to God. The earth belongs to God. We belong to God.

Is there anything else we need to know about God except how to be reconciled with Him?

And that reconciliation is the theme of the whole Bible.

John 14:6 (KJV)

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

#Job41v10-11 #Leviathan #PowerOfGod #ReconciledToGod #JesusIsTheWay

The Lesson of Leviathan: Job 41 Points Us to Jesus Christ

What does Leviathan teach us about the power of God—and how can sinful man be reconciled to the God who owns everything under heaven? 

Share your thoughts on Job 41:10-11 in the comments. 

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Job 41:10-11 (KJV) The Lesson of Leviathan

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Job 40:8 (KJV) You’re Asking the Wrong Question About Suffering

Job 40:8 (KJV)

Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

I wonder if we have been too quick to read this as a rebuke of Job.

God does not say that Job has disannulled His judgment. He does not say that Job has condemned Him. He asks, “Wilt thou?”

For much of the book, Job’s friends have operated under what appears to be a false choice. God is righteous. Job is suffering. Therefore, Job must have done something to deserve his suffering. To defend the righteousness of God, they believed they had to condemn Job.

Job refused to accept their conclusion.

He knew he had not committed the sins they imagined. He would not confess to something merely because his circumstances seemed to demand an explanation. Yet neither did Job abandon his faith in God.

Perhaps that is the point of God’s question. “Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?”

Job did not have to.

There was never a necessity to choose between the righteousness of God and the integrity of Job. The friends had created that dilemma because they could not imagine another explanation for Job’s suffering. But their inability to explain something did not make their explanation true.

There is a lesson here worth remembering.

We can become so determined to explain what God is doing that we begin assigning guilt where God has not assigned it. We see trouble and assume chastening. We see suffering and search for sin. We see circumstances that do not fit our understanding of God and construct an explanation that makes everything fit neatly again.

But God does not need us to defend Him by falsely accusing another man.

Neither must we question the righteousness of God when we know an accusation against us is false.

There is another possibility. We may simply not know.

God can be righteous when I cannot explain what He is doing. A man can suffer without my knowing why he suffers. And I can trust the judgment of God without inventing an explanation for what God has not explained.

Faith does not require an answer for everything. It requires confidence that God is right even when I do not know the answer.

#TrustGod #BookOfJob #FaithWithoutAnswers #GodIsRight #BibleTruth

You’re Asking the Wrong Question About Suffering: Seeing What God Sees

What do you think Job 40:8 is really teaching? Is God rebuking Job, or showing him that he cannot see the whole picture? Share your thoughts in the comments. 

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Job 40:8 (KJV) You’re Asking the Wrong Question About Suffering

Here's a comic version of the lesson.

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Job 39:17 (KJV) The Danger of Thinking You Have God Figured Out

Job 39:17 (KJV)

Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

While I know this is not the typical interpretation of God’s words to Job, I want to entertain the idea that God’s monologue in chapters 38-39 is not directed at Job precisely, but that God is speaking to Job about his friends. It will lead naturally into the dialogue that follows. They had given bad counsel because they did not fully understand God.

God’s explanation can then be broken into two segments:

Chapter 38 — God governs a world man cannot comprehend.

(We don’t know enough to explain God.)

Chapter 39 — God governs creatures man cannot control.

(God’s ways are far more varied, intricate, and surprising than their tidy theology allowed.)

That problem did not end with Job’s friends.

Whether we speak of the varying religions of the world, the differing philosophies that have been introduced, or the angry responses of those who basically hate everything and choose to think of themselves as little more than animals, the reason they can’t get things adequately figured out is because they just miss who God is.

Even Job fell short on this count. So do we.

The great danger is not that we do not understand everything about God. We never will. The danger is that we speak as though we do.

Job’s friends took what little they knew of God and used it to explain what they could not know about Job. We can make the same mistake. We see a circumstance, observe another person, collect a few facts, and become certain we know what God is doing.

Better to know God than to insist upon explaining Him.

There are things God has not given us the wisdom to understand. Faith does not demand that He explain them. Faith trusts that the God who governs what we cannot comprehend and controls what we cannot control can also be trusted with what we cannot explain.

“Because God hath.”

Let that settle it.

#BecauseGodHath #TrustGod #BookOfJob #FaithOverUnderstanding #DailyVisitWithGod

The Danger of Thinking You Have God Figured Out: Knowing Our Limits and Learning to Trust Him

What do you do when God does not explain what He is doing? Job 39 reminds us that limited understanding should never become confident assumptions about God. “Because God hath.” Let that settle it.

What has the Lord taught you about trusting Him when you cannot understand His ways? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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To my readers:

Thank you! It is a great joy to me to know you read the thoughts and lessons God has given me in His word. I would love to hear from you. Please feel free to leave comments.

For this and, more than 7200 earlier Daily Visits with God, visit https://mckenzie-visit-with-god.blogspot.com. There you will find daily visits going back to 2005.

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Job 39:17 (KJV) The Danger of Thinking You Have God Figured Out

Here's a comic version of the lesson.

http://youtube.com/post/Ugkx78-sFLLWElm5NsZjgY0l6t-uWpFvmSMW?si=ozt-sza9VoVqQqfa