Job 25-27, Matthew 21: 33-46, Psalm 21
Job 27: 1-6 (ESV)
“And Job again took up his discourse, and said: “As God
lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul
bitter, as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit. Far be
it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my
integrity from me. I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my
heart does not reproach me for any of my days.”
In verses 1 through 6 from Job 27 Job tells his friends that
even though he felt that God made his soul bitter, he did not want to tell any
lies about God. Job wanted to hold on to his integrity and his righteousness.
In his heart even though Job felt that God had somehow abandoned him and had
let bad things happen to him, Job held on to his faith that God was a just God.
I admire Job’s faith in God. Even though he had his whole life upended, he
refused to give up on his faith in God. I know in my darkest days I did not
have faith of Job, and I did not go through a tenth of the tragedies that Job
had experienced. This year in reading Job, I have gained a new appreciation for
his faith. Job’s faith in God was truly unshakable, and I would be happy to
have a tenth of his faith in God.
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