Hearing about Job’s tragedies we read of ‘three friends‘ who decided to go ‘and comfort him.’
They would be forever immortalized as “Job’s Comforters” for their efforts met with no success and neither were they meant to. God had something better in store for Job than just ‘a feeling fix.’ True ‘comfort’ must come from a deeper source!
Job’s dis-ease would not be healed at the level of the EMOTION in his SOUL, he needed an adjustment at the level of his SPIRIT
In Chapter 3 he begins his lament which can be summerized……
“Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?”
The biggest question of them all…..“WHY (my) SUFFERING?”
He concludes with, “What I feared has come upon me, what I dreaded has happened to me. I have NO PEACE, NO QUIETNESS. I have NO REST, but only turmoil.”
Our Father had the above video arrive in my inbox in perfect time for this blog!
Notice the repeated appeal to personal Ease, Comfort and Convenience. These seem to have become the I – dolls in our ‘western’ world today. Above all we must avoid pain and suffering.
As I was typing this last sentence our mail arrived. I was puzzled when I opened a parcel addressed to me. Robin had ordered it, but had forgotten to change the name of the recepient! Father knew I needed the visual aid to make this very point : – )
God does not answer Job’s question “Why” with a REASON, rather when he does speak toward the end of the book in Chapter 38, it is in order that Job might receive a REVELATION…… or rather, three Revelations.
This insight came to me in the midst of my first run in with Job, also by way of a personal revelation. Feel free to concur or not as I offer my perspective.
To receive the FIRST REVELATION, Job is taken on a ‘magical mystery tour of creation’ in three wonder – filled chapters – 38, 39 and 40! His eyes are opened and he is ‘gobsmacked’ by The GREATNESS of the SOVEREIGN CREATOR!
Then in Chapter 41 at the end of ‘the tour’, Job is finally introduced to a great monster. It’s name is LEVIATHAN.
The final words describing this beast are, “Nothing on earth is his equal – a creature without fear. He looks down on all that are haughty. He is KING over all that are PROUD.”
I believe Job’s SECOND REVELATION was, that staring into the face of Leviathan….he saw none other than…….his SELF!
“That’s me!” He realizes.” ‘A creature without fear’…… the ‘fear of the Lord’ that is…….. I am indeed ‘KING of the PROUD’“
Again he is ‘undone’ as it dawns on him the GROTESQENESS of the SINFUL CREATURE….that lies within, and arrogantly exalts it’s ‘SELF’ over it’s creator.
SIN is literally and figuratively when “I” is at the center
Earlier in chapter 29, we see this illustrated. That chapter can be briefly summarized,
“ IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII“
………as Job recites to himself and his friends, one by one, examples of “MY virtuous life.”
Job’s problem is of course fallen humanity’s problem. and is again well illustrated in the above video. I decided to do a rough count of the number of times YOU or YOUR was said in the Ectolife video within the space of a few minutes. Here was the count,
“UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU”
The globalist elite of the New World Order who are seeking through Artificial Intelligence to take control of every facet of every life are banking on calling up this Leviathan by reinforcing, “Yes! It’s all about YOU!”
As the song “All Will Be Well” puts it,
“Though the famed and the fortune dictate the song
Though our fallen desires just play us along.”
All will indeed be well in the end, but in order for that to happen including our personal “well-ness”, there is a ‘Job Journey’ each of us must undertake. That JO(URNE)Y ends with the THIRD REVELATION
Sorry to leave you hanging…… but you’ll have to wait for the next blog for that one : – )