Read: Job 12:1-15:35; 1 Corinthians 15:29-58; Psalm 39:1-13; Proverbs 21:30-31
Job fights back accusing his friends of thinking they are smarter than God. I love how he sums up his view of his wealthy friends: “Men at ease have contempt for misfortune.”. It was the thought of the day. If you are blessed then you are doing everything right and God is smiling down on you, but if things are going bad for you then it must be your fault. This is an easy lie to buy into because we want everything to make sense. We like cause and effect but God’s ways are not our ways.
Job concluded that it would be wise for his friends to not say a thing instead of their lies. That is a great piece of advise.
In Corinthians, Paul teaches us about resurrection. He was speaking to a group of people who said they didn’t believe in the resurrection, yet they were being baptized for their dead relatives. By doing this, they were proving that they believed there was a hereafter.
They also believed that life was short so they should live it up. Paul reminded them that sin corrupts the soul and who they hung out with and what they did mattered. Our flesh and blood cannot enter heaven, so we must be born again and have a spiritual rebirth to enter heaven. The old man will die, but the new man will resurrect. That is the victory over the grave and that is our hope as Christians.
Lord, thank you for salvation and life.
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