Sun.’s Devo - We Are the Light of the World

Read: Job 28:1-30:31; 2 Corinthians 2:12-17; Psalm 42:1-11; Proverbs 22:7 Elihu continues judging Job’s claims of innocence. He claims that Job is a man of irreverent talk, then continues to talk irreverently about Job. What Elihu says about God has a lot of wisdom as does the other men’t speeches. They just got it wrong about Job. He asks Job if he things God should tailor his justice to meet his demands. He thinks that Job deserves God’s maximum penalty. He adds rebellion and disrespect to Job’s list of sins. Elihu continues explaining God’s great love for humanity…all except for Job. Elihu says that God is great and worthy of praise and who can tell him what to do or declare their innocence. Paul explained this very thing. The people of this world cannot understand the redeeming power of God to make a person righteous. It is not our righteousness we are proclaiming or living; it is God’s righteousness living through us who yield to it. It is our light that shines brighter and brighter the more we die to expose it. We go through troubles, trials, suffering and pain in this world but God is always with us empowering us to go through it with joy. In the Old Testament their righteousness was in their deeds, in the New Testament our righteousness is in Christ who lives in us. Lord, may your righteousness live through us to lighten the world and give them a way to You and peace in our troubled times.