Thursday, October 29, 2009

Job here speaks again ...

Job here speaks again. Personally, I believe that these words have both anger and hope within them. In a proverbial perspective, such is life. The same angering circumstance can always have a bit of hope. So Job says,

‘O that my words were written down!
O that they were inscribed in a book!
O that with an iron pen and with lead
they were engraved on a rock for ever!
For I know that my Redeemer lives,
and that at the last he will stand upon the earth;
and after my skin has been thus destroyed,
then in my flesh I shall see God,
whom I shall see on my side,
and my eyes shall behold, and not another.
My heart faints within me!
If you say, “How we will persecute him!”
and, “The root of the matter is found in him”;
be afraid of the sword,
for wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
so that you may know there is a judgement.’
(Job 19:23-29)

God is curious God. He hears prayers of anger. So if you are angry with God, please express it openly to God. God can indeed handle it well.

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