Fri.’s Devo - Job’s Happy Ending

Read: Job 40:1-42:17; 2 Corinthians 5:11-21; Psalm 45:1-17; Proverbs 22:14 God asks Job if he still has an argument with him and if he still claims to have all the answers. Job is humbled and repents. He has nothing to say. (Good answer!) *** God has some questions for Job like, “Will you discredit my justice and condemn me just to prove you are right? Are you as strong as God?” Then he challenges Job’s power to his. (I can see Job sinking further into the dust in humiliation and regret. He picked on the wrong god… being as God is the only God!) *** God points out the ways of Behemoth which was known as the Egyptian hippopotamus, they referred to as the Nile-horse. God’s uses him as an example of its power that no man can control. Then he moves to Leviathan which was a reptile like the crocodile or a large sea-monster. He can’t be caught, tamed or overcome. These are all creatures made by God to reflect his mighty power. *** Job responds in repentance. He didn’t know what he was talking about before and he takes everything back. He humbly repents. *** God then spoke to Eliphaz and told him he was angry at him and his two friends because they didn’t speak accurately about him like Job did. He tells them that if they want to be in right standing with Him then were to take seven bulls and seven rams and go to Job and offer them as a burnt offering to atone for their sins before Job. Then Job would pray for them. How humiliating was that! When Job prayed for them, God restored Job’s fortunes. He ended up twice as prosperous and got back the same number of sons and three most beautiful daughters. Job honored them as sons and lived to see 4 generations of his family before he died. *** In his letter to the Corinthians, Paul tries to explain the rebirth we have in Christ. We are no longer the same person just like the way they look at Christ now that he rose from the dead is a new way. They themselves are different, not the same person. They see things from heaven’s perspective which might make people think they are a little crazy. *** Now, their goal is to bring others to know Christ as the risen Lord and have their lives radically changed. This is our goal also! *** Lord, may we see ourselves and our Christian family as a risen-from-the-dead, new creature. May our live consistently reflect your glory and love.