In Job 29 we find Job grieving over his former prosperity... A friend of mine absolutely loves this chapter as he talks about this being a model for what godly manhood should be.
"Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head and when by his light I walked through darkness." (Job 29:2-3)
Look at some of the qualities and activities of this man of God:
- He delivers the poor and the Fatherless
- He caused the widows hearts to sing for Joy
- He was eyes to the blind
- He was feet to the lame
- He was a father to the poor
- He searched out the cause of the less fortunate
- He broke the jaws of the wicked
- Men listened and headed his counsel
- Men opened their mouth and waited for him as for the rain!
Actually as I look at Job's self-description, I actually see a fresh description of Christ! I love the fact that He is eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. He is truly healing to the broken hearted. When we open our mouths (Ps. 81:10), He truly does fill to overflowing!
Luke 23 is sharing the somber scenes of Jesus stand in the judgement and then His crucifixion. "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." What a life He lived... and died... This is why He can truly be the deliverer of the poor and needy. Through death He broke the jaws of the wicked, of the enemy -- forever!
Tomorrow's Reading: Job 31-32 and Ps. 86-87
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