40 Days Pondering Heaven - 10
Dr Jim Brown's TruNorth Devotional
Pondering Heaven
Day 10 | SEEING GOD: OUR GOAL
Pondering Heaven
Day 10 | SEEING GOD: OUR GOAL
SEEING GOD: OUR GOAL
Job 19:25-27
“For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth; and after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!”
The book of Job is considered by Bible scholars to be the OLDEST book in the Bible, written even before Moses wrote Genesis. And even then, SEEING GOD was desired by Job.
Ponder Job and the human tragedies that fell upon him. (If you’re not familiar with the story, do a quick read of Job 1:13-22 and 2:7-10… Wow!)
For most of the book, we are told about Job and his three friends, who – in their own imperfect way – were trying to HELP Job get through ALL that he was going through. (I often refer to what his friends did as the “ministry of being there.”) They cared about Job and initially just sat with him in his suffering, which probably helped him. His wife had given Job her solution: “Curse God and die” … which was NOT great advice!
Fortunately, Job begins to come around, as we see in today's verses. He starts to focus on his Redeemer, Almighty God.
As Jonathan Edwards wrote: “Seeing that HE is an all-sufficient being, it follows that HE is a full, overflowing, and inexhaustible fountain of love.”
I can also imagine (if I try hard) that in the midst of Job’s sorrows, hurts, and anguish, focusing on God, his Redeemer, brought comfort and some joy to an otherwise devastating situation.
Prayer; LORD, help me to focus more on you, even in the little situations that happen in my life. Amen.
Job 19:25-27
“For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth; and after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!”
The book of Job is considered by Bible scholars to be the OLDEST book in the Bible, written even before Moses wrote Genesis. And even then, SEEING GOD was desired by Job.
Ponder Job and the human tragedies that fell upon him. (If you’re not familiar with the story, do a quick read of Job 1:13-22 and 2:7-10… Wow!)
For most of the book, we are told about Job and his three friends, who – in their own imperfect way – were trying to HELP Job get through ALL that he was going through. (I often refer to what his friends did as the “ministry of being there.”) They cared about Job and initially just sat with him in his suffering, which probably helped him. His wife had given Job her solution: “Curse God and die” … which was NOT great advice!
Fortunately, Job begins to come around, as we see in today's verses. He starts to focus on his Redeemer, Almighty God.
As Jonathan Edwards wrote: “Seeing that HE is an all-sufficient being, it follows that HE is a full, overflowing, and inexhaustible fountain of love.”
I can also imagine (if I try hard) that in the midst of Job’s sorrows, hurts, and anguish, focusing on God, his Redeemer, brought comfort and some joy to an otherwise devastating situation.
Prayer; LORD, help me to focus more on you, even in the little situations that happen in my life. Amen.
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