Job 9 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Job 9.  Job is speaking.

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Meditate on verses 1-3.

 

Then Job answered, "In truth I know that this is so, but

 how can a man be in the right before God?

If one wished to dispute with Him, He could not

 answer Him once in a thousand times.

 

Unlike Job’s pompous friends, Job figured out he does not have God figured out.  He praises God’s power and wisdom, humbly acknowledging his inability to understand the LORD and His ways.  Job’s friends counsel him to do things to be right with God and garner His favor.  Job asks, “How can I be right with God?  Even if I wash with snow and scrub myself with lye, God will send me to the pit” (vs. 2, 30-31).  Job knows being right with God cannot come from one’s self.  His words sound similar to King David’s:

 

Be gracious to me, O God, according to

Your lovingkindness; according

 to the greatness of Your compassion

blot out my transgressions.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity

and cleanse me from my sin.

 Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;

wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

—Psalm 51:1-2, 7

 

Humbly acknowledge God and your need for Him by praying Job 9:5-8, 10, and 30 as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“God, You remove the mountains when You overturn

them in Your anger.  You shake the earth out of its place,

and its pillars tremble.  You command the sun not to shine

 and set a seal upon the stars.  You alone stretch out the heavens

and trample down the waves of the sea.  You do great things,

unfathomable, and wondrous works without number. 

You did the wondrous work of washing and cleansing me to

be whiter than snow.  Please do the same for ____________.

In Your name, Jesus~”

 

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