Job 30 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Job 30.  Job is speaking.

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Meditate on verse 20.

 

I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me;

 I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.

 

Even though his words are difficult to hear, it is good to see Job speaking to God again.  It has been 13 chapters since we heard him pray (Job 17).  Now, in gnawing pain, he accuses God of cruelly persecuting him (vs. 17, 21).  He feels like God is shooting at him with a bow and arrow as people abhorrently spit on him (vs. 10-11).  With his diseased flesh dying on his feverish bones, Job is certainly not experiencing prosperity as promised by Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar (vs. 15, 30; Job 5:17-27; 8:20-22; 11:15-19).  And so, he cries to God in his pain and confusion.  Hang in there with Job; chapter 38 is coming when God helps us make sense of this entire mess.

 

In the meantime, use Job’s prayer to cry out to the LORD because there are times when it feels like God is using us for target practice.  Thankfully, we can tell Him how we feel.  Pray Job 30:20-23 as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“LORD, I cry out to You for help, but You do not

 answer me; I stand up, and You turn Your

attention against me.  You have become cruel to me.

 With the might of Your hand, You persecute me. 

You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride,

and You dissolve me in a storm.

For I know that You will bring me to death

and to the house of meeting for all living.

Even so, I trust You, Jesus~”

 

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