Sat.’s Devo - Let Your Light Shine

Read: Job 31:1-33:33; 2 Corinthians 3:1-18; Psalm 43:1-5; Proverbs 22:8-9 Job seems to be going through his check list of anything he could have done and presents his own case to himself and his friends. He hasn’t lusted after another woman. He explains that those who go the way of sexual sin end up in hell and losing everything. How true is that? He hasn’t been unfair to his servants and slaves. He realizes they are both equal in God’s eyes. He has always cared for the orphan, the widow, and the homeless. He hasn’t put his trust in his riches although he had plenty. He hasn’t worshipped the sun or the moon or wanted his enemies to meet disaster. He has never turned away a stranger or tried to hide his sins. He hasn’t feared what others thought or been afraid of facing the crowd. Of all this he signs his name that it is true. If anyone can bring an accusation against him, and he is guilty of it, he will repent. Amen. Job was finished. There was another younger guy who had listened to all of the words of Job and his friends but he had remained quiet in honor of their age. When he saw that Job’s friends were not able to convince Job of his sin and that Job was still standing on his own integrity, he couldn’t stay quiet another moment. He felt he had to speak up. His name was Elihu, son of Barakel the Buzite. The word “Buzite” means “contempt for those in authority or disrespect for those older”. That would describe Elihu. He claimed that even though he was younger, he had the spirit of God which made him wiser than them. In his arrogance, he warns them he is not going to flatter them. That was an understatement. He started with Job and his plea for innocence. Elihu explained that God speaks through dreams and disciplines people with pain and sickness. He also speaks through angels and restores people’s health and youth when they are on their death bed. This visitation should cause the person to repent and humble himself before his friends and admit his guilt. He then gave Job a chance to rebuttal but warns him that he is not through. In Corinthians, Paul explained that our lives can be read like a book and show the way to Jesus just like the Word was written on stone tablets. It is because now, the Word is written on our hearts. The old covenant started in glory and ended in death but the new covenant starts in death, the death of Jesus and ourselves and ends in great glory. The new covenant gives us confidence to be very bold. We cannot veil ourselves like Moses had to because the glory of God was so bright on his face. It was the people who asked him to put the veil on because they could not look on his face. That veil is now on the face of the unbeliever veiling their minds from being able to see the truth. Only belief in Jesus as the Messiah will take that veil away. Lord, may we let our light so shine from our unveiled faces that we glorify the hearts of those who’s faces are veiled. May we bring hope and life to those perishing.