Job 4 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Job 4.  Eliphaz is speaking.

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Meditate on verses 7-9.

 

Remember now, whoever perished being innocent?

Or where were the upright destroyed? 

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity

 and those who sow trouble harvest it.

 By the breath of God they perish, and by the

 blast of His anger they come to an end.

 

Job’s friend, Eliphaz, assumes God is punishing Job because of sin in his life, reminding Job he admonished others in the past, and now he is the one who needs admonishing (vs. 3-5).  Eliphaz’s words are as cutting as the potsherd Job used to scrape his painful boils (Job 2:8).  He even has the audacity to relate his demonic vision to Job as if it is a word from the LORD (vs. 12-21).

 

What have you been taught and what do you believe about pain and suffering?  Thankfully, we have the book of Job to refine our thoughts.  Let God’s Word temper your words when you speak to others in their pain.  Test everything you hear and say with God’s Word, making sure it is the Spirit of God speaking and not the spirit of the demonic.

 

Use the words from Job 4:1-4, asking God to make you a Godly counselor and a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“LORD, help me refrain from speaking until

You want me to speak.  When You tell me

to admonish, let it be received with patience.

Help me strengthen weak hands. 

May my words help the tottering to stand.

Let me strengthen feeble knees. 

In Your name, Jesus~”

 

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