Thurs.’s Devo - Does God Need Man?

Read Job 22 The book of Job is full of questions about God. Today’s question is given by Eliphaz. He asks if God needs man and if God finds pleasure in our righteousness. That is a good question. Eliphaz gets sarcastic and wants to know if God is afraid of Job or his judgment. Then Eliphaz starts condemning Job of robbing the poor, taking bribes, forsaking widow’s needs, neglecting the fatherless, and being clouded by fear and sin. He asks Job if he has forgotten that God is reigning from heaven and though we can’t see him because of the clouds, he can see everything we do. He says that Job has watched the prospering of the rich and missed the fact that God sees everything they do. The righteous understand judgment and laugh at the ungodly. The righteous will not be cut down in judgment. He admonishes Job to instead consider the path of the righteous and follow after him as his example. Then things will go good with him. Then he will have wisdom (gold) and silver (knowledge) and God will defend him. Then he will delight in God and be able to approach God. God will hear his prayers and he will have what he asks. His ways will be blessed. When he falls, God will lift him up if he is humble. He will be delivered by his righteousness. I love verse 28: “You will decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and the light shall shine upon you ways.” Lord, that is our prayer today, that we might establish some things that would cause your ways to be illuminated.