Job 21 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Job 21. Job is speaking.

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Meditate on verse 4. 

 

“As for me, is my complaint to man?

And why should I not be impatient?”

 

“No, Job, your complaint is to God, so why are you talking to your friends instead of the LORD?”

 

The story of Job started with most of his words spoken to God, but now he is talking more and more to his friends and less and less to God, and the conversation is crazy.  Job is caught-up in a foolish argument.  “Hush, Job!  Talk to God!”

 

Have you ever been in a Job situation?  Life is crazy and hard, and there are people with lots of advice for how to make it simple and easy.  But the more you talk to humans the crazier the conversation and life become.  Stop!  The LORD says, “Hush, be still, cease striving, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10).  Turn your conversations back to Him.  He has the answers you need.

 

Use the words from Job 21:27 and 34 to talk to the LORD as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“Behold, LORD, You know my

thoughts and the plans

 I have, which are wrong for me. 

LORD, I need Your help!

 I want Your thoughts and plans! 

Others vainly comfort me, and their

answers remain full of falsehood.

 I turn to You, LORD, only You

 can truly comfort me, and

Your answers remain full

of faithfulness and truth. 

Let __________ turn to You, too, for

 the answers they need.

In Your name, Jesus~”

 

 

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