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May 31 + Daily notes & readings

DAY 151

Congratulations!  You're finishing another book of the Bible today.

God and Job finish their conversation and God restores Job.

DAILY READINGS

Job 40-42 & Psalm 146

DAILY NOTES

Job 40

  • God has revealed himself to Job.  Now, Job does not want the same attention of God that he so desperately wanted before.  
  • Some translations indicate Job as "vile" (vs. 4).  The better idea is insignificant.  Job seems to realize how small he is compared to who God is.
Job 41
  • The last thing God speaks to Job about Leviathan.  What/Who is Leviathan?  A mythical creature?  Sea monster?  Ancient dragon?  Big crocodile?  
    • Leviathan is mentioned in Isaiah 27:1; Psalm 74:14; Psalm 104:26 and a couple of other times in Job.
  • Of course, the implication of Job 41 is that Leviathan's power is under the control and authority of God.
Job 42
  • God got on to Job.  Now, God turns his "wrath" toward Job's friends.  God says that they have not spoken "what is right" about God.  So, no one had God figured out.  They are required to leave an offering for Job.  
    • Job prays for his friends.  
  • Did you notice Verse 11?  Job is blessed "twice as much" as before.  His "brothers and sisters and all who had known him before" came to eat with him and comfort him "for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him."  Evil?
    • I have a lot of questions about the ending.  But I just finished reading Job. So, I don't want to get in trouble with God 😅
Psalm 146
  • The psalmist praises God because He has helped him and He will help me.  Putting trust in people above God is of no help.  Only God has proven to be of true help for all people.

OTHER OBSERVATIONS

Since both Job and his group of friends (what about Elihu) gets a "talkin' to" from God, there seems to be something we can take from all of their conversations.  We cannot walk before God without humility.  We do not have and we will never have all the answers we seek.  Even our best questions lead to more questions.  

God doesn't just give answers.  God is our answer.  

That seems to be, at least in part, what Job and his friends did not understand.  They were too concerned with being right.  They wanted to correct each other.  Perhaps their intent was noble or, as in Job's case, understandable.  But we must think about what we say when we speak about God. When we speak of God, we do so in humility and reverence.  

When God asks several times, "Who has," or "Who is, " it makes me think of this song: Only a Holy God



What questions did the book of Job leave you with?  Stay blessed...john
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