Mon.’s Devo - Bildad's Wisdom

Read Job 8:1-22 Today we hear from Bildad the Shuhite. Bildad rebukes Job for thinking that God doesn’t know what he’s doing. He asks: does God judge wrong. He believes that if Job would seek God and if Job was pure and upright, then surely God would have done something to help him. A man who walks with God should start small and should increase as he matures. Ask anyone who has lived a long time: there is no way to go through life and not get a little “dirty”. A man who forgets God or “pretend” to know God, is like marshy grass that grows along the Nile, if denied water it dies while it is still green and withers quicker than other plants. The things he trusts in will be a snare and unable to hold him up when he needs them to. He is uncovered (green before the sun) in the heat of adversity and even though he was prosperous like weeds. Once ripped up, he is quickly forgotten and replaced. But God will not do that to a man that walks before him in righteousness, not will he help a sinner. Bilhad believes Job has some hidden sin also. One thing he knows for sure, the people who hate Job will be clothed with shame. Too bad Bildad did not have the book of James then he could have read that we are to rejoice when trials come our what because they produce patience and is the way to becoming the “perfect man”. The bottom line in anything that comes our way is to trust in God. Suffering is part of the world we live in because the devil has been unleashed on the earth. But, what we need to remind ourselves is that the one inside of us is greater and has more power. Lord, teach us to know how and when to fight.