Mon.’s Devo - Mercy

Read: Job 6-9
Job’s grief is more than he thinks he can bear. He finds no reason to live but is cursed to keep living. He is upset that his friends that should know him are trying to accuse him of something he is not guilty of. His friend, Eliphaz argues that if Job was righteous then things would not have gone as they did. Job argues that a man can not truly know God and understand him without seeing the frailty of man. Job realizes there is no way he can be clean before God. God is not a man that we can reason with or justify our actions. God is the mighty God who created everything. All Job could ask for is mercy.
This is the Old Testament thought in a nutshell. They were at God’s mercy and he was in control of their outcome. There was no relationship only a wholesome fear of who God was. Because of Jesus, we are invited to come near and know God. He is the same God who created the world and is awesomely wonderful and powerful, but we can know him. We can have a relationship with him. We have been given grace.
Lord, help us to see your invitation and come boldly before your throne of grace.