Wed.’s Devo - Resurrection

Read: Job 12:1-15:35; 1 Corinthians 15:29-58; Psalm 39:1-13; Provers 21:30-31 Job accuses his friends of being know-it-alls and saying he is ignorant. They laugh at him because he believes God will answer him. They refuse to believe that Job is just and honest even though they have never known him to be anything but that. Job argues that all creation knows he is innocent. God is God and he can do whatever he wants to no matter what man does or deserves. Job says his friends are playing God by judging for him. Do they not fear God? Job is determined to argue his case before God and be told by God what he has against him. Job considers death and wonders if there is a resurrection. There is resurrection for trees and he hopes there is for humans. Job hopes that in death, God would cover his guilt and welcome his presence. God put that seed inside of Job to want salvation and a mediator to cover his guilt. God responded to this desire when he sent Jesus to be our mediator and take away our guilt. Eliphaz speaks again and calls Job a windbag full of hot air. He said that Job’s own mouth condemns him. He tells him that he does not have a monopoly on wisdom and that Job speaks evil things. God didn’t even trust the angels so how could he trust Job to be innocent or tell the truth. Yet, Eliphaz claims to have the truth. He claims that the evil live in fear of death yet they live their lives trusting in their riches to save them. It will all be taken from them in the prime of their lives. They reap what they sow. In Corinthians, Paul gives his argument for the resurrection. He talks about people being baptized for those who are dead. In my commentator it says that people often put off being baptized until they were almost dead. Baptism is a picture of the resurrection so if you didn’t believe in the resurrection, why go through the ritual. Paul explained resurrection like a seed planted in the ground that dies then resurrects into a tree. We are the seed that will go into the ground at our death and be resurrected a whole new person. What we look like in our glorified body no one knows and that is not the point. The point is to live your lives so that you will be glorified in death. Spiritually, we died to our sins when we became a Christian and were resurrected a whole new person in Christ. We look the same, except we have life in our countenance and we live our lives for Christ and not ourselves. We are Adam in our past life, but Christ in our resurrected one. In the end of time, all believers on earth and in heaven will be given new bodies. We will come back to earth and live a thousand years in that body. Lord, give us eyes to see and a heart to understand your truths. Thank you for being the resurrection and the life.