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Who is listening
Wisdom thought experiment.
What I mean by that is...
Job could be a real character that existed in history, I don’t have a problem with that.
Job is written as a thought experiment to reveal our thoughts about God
Job is written to reveal
our thoughts about God
So, here is something to consider.
What if Job’s “friends” are different streams of thought in Job’s mind as he goes through this.
In other words, if Job is praying, if all the words of Job are a prayer, then how do his friends fit into this?
Because…Job has...
The courage to be honest
And to be honest in front of his friends.
But these friends could easily be the thoughts in his mind as he is praying.
Have you ever had this experience?
You are praying and your are SUDDENLY INVADED with other thoughts?
“How can you pray, look at
what you have done.
Hypocrite!”
“How can you pray, look at what has been done to you! God does not care or listen!”
“You are nothing but dust and
there is no God.
Give up and die.”
“Just be patient, God will
make it better.
Stop worrying!”
“You helped others with your advice,
but you cannot help yourself.
Fraud!”
NOTE: These are the counsel of Job’s friends.
And NONE of THEM know what is going on.
That is important, it is STRIKING!
DECIDE ON THE TEXT...
Eliphaz calls out Job in error.
This is a slight to Job.
“If you are innocent, then why are you in an ash pile brooding over the day of your birth?”
“Where is your faith?”
“You must be guilty of something...”
Job has not done evil…he is a VICTIM of EVIL.
The ORIGINAL REBEL enticed the humans to rebellion in the garden.
This adversarial REBEL enticed God against a human.
Gossip...
He has received a “visitation” from a spirit to confirm this gossip he has heard.
“God told me...”
Can you imagine…Job has lost all his children, and this is how this guy wants to make his case?
“Well, they suffered because of you...”
DO YOU SEE HOW THIS CAN BE A MENTAL EXERCISE?
These are things you could tell yourself...
OKAY...
Here we have what I like to call a
PRE-SCRIPTURE.
That throw away verse you toss someones way when they are hurting or have done something wrong.
What Eliphas says is a true proverb.
BUT…it DOES NOT APPLY HERE!!!
Why? Job has done nothing WRONG.
Is Job going through CORRECTION?
Is he going through DISCIPLINE for an offense?
The rest of Eliphas’ speech is about how JOB WILL PROSPER if he just humbles himself before God and acknowledges God’s correction.
Come on Job, just fess up, you GOT WHAT you DESERVED.
Admit it, we all know it is true, a spirit confirmed it, we are all wise men here to visit you.
JOB’s RESPONSE
Job considered what happened as misfortune, not something deserved.
Yet, he agrees that it FEELS like the DISCIPLINE of God, but he is CONFUSED because he has done NOTHING to deserve this.
Job is CONFUSED as to WHY he has been allowed to LIVE, while everything has been taken from him, his family is dead.
His wife has BETRAYED him by ALIGNING with the Adversary.
Like any tragedy…why was I allowed to live?
And you have to decide how you are going to handle that.
He makes a comparison to the unending streams that come from something like a Garden to those streams that are unreliable.
IF you know something I DONT, then PLEASE, TELL ME!!!
But what you are doing, it is wrong.
No, it is evil, like selling an orphan or friend into SLAVERY.
In other WORDS...
You are trying to BIND ME to a SIN that I have NOT DONE!
Job declares himself RIGHTEOUS...
The courage to be honest
With yourself
With others
With God
Be kind
Who is listening?
**** Yourself ****
**** Others ****
**** God ****
**** Be kind ****
Conclusion:
It is as if Job is speaking in the presence of others, but his words are also being heard by God.
What if it is a prayer.
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