Job 17 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Job 17.  Job is speaking.

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Meditate on verse 1a.

 

My spirit is broken. 

 

The trial is not abating for Job.  A broken man with dashed hopes, shattered dreams, and messed-up plans, he asks God for a pledge (vs. 3, 11, 15).  Job needs a guarantee in this really difficult life (v. 3).

 

Sometimes life gets hard, even reaching Job-like proportions.  For Christians, God gives us a pledge, a Guarantor to whom we cling:

 For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because

we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal

 will be swallowed up by life.  Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is

God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge. Therefore, being always of good

courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are

absent from the LORD—for we walk by faith, not by sight— we are of good

courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from

 the body and to be at home with the LORD.

—2 Corinthians 5:4-8

 

No matter what happens in this life, God wants you to “abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” (Romans 15:13). 

 

As a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7), tell God how you feel, using the words from Job 17:1, 11, and 15, thanking Him for His pledge and Guarantor (v. 3).

 

“LORD, my spirit is broken; my days are

extinguished, and it appears the grave is ready for me. 

My days are past; my plans and the wishes of my heart

are torn apart.  Where is my hope and who regards my hope?

My hope is in You and Your Spirit, Jesus,

my Pledge and Guarantor

 in this life and the life to come~”

 

The WATCHMAN on the WALL, 4 – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell