Job 8 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Job 8.  Bildad is speaking.

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Meditate on verses 1-2.

 

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, "How long will you say

these things, and the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?”

 

Bildad the Shuhite could be nicknamed Bildad the Blunt.  He speaks with no tact, calling Job a windbag and his children sinners who got what they deserved (vs. 2, 4).  He shows no sympathy for Job, making no acknowledgment of his immense pain and suffering.  Bildad simply states his assumption that if Job was righteous, God would bless him, and since he isn’t being blessed, he is obviously being punished by God because of sin.  He also counsels Job to manipulate God:

 

If you would seek God and implore the

 compassion of the Almighty, if you are

pure and upright, surely now

He would rouse Himself for you and

restore your righteous estate.

—Job 8:5-6

 

Again, God’s Word is so convicting.  How easy it is to be a blunt Bildad, assuming we understand God’s ways and being quick to advise others to pray more, read their Bible more, go to church more, and sin less if they want to be blessed.  Ask God to teach you what not to say and help you not be a spiritual bully like Bildad, using the words from Job 8:3, as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“LORD God Almighty, You do not pervert justice,

and You do not pervert what is right.

Do not let me pervert who You are and what You say.

In Your name, Jesus~”

 

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