PRAYERS OF THE BIBLE SERIES: BOOK OF JOB, Prayer #5 – GOD RESPONDS.
Thursday, November 12th, 2015
As we observe the personal, emotional and physical angst of a man in spiritual agony – Job – it is becoming obvious that the lessons of his life are meant for all mankind, for all time. Everything Job has experienced said, prayed or complained about, has been done by just about everybody alive now or forever! As we move on towards the end of the prayers of this amazing chronologically first book of the Bible, Chapter 30 of Job and verses 20-23 shows us a very desperate man who is about near the end of his “rope”. I chose this passage in the New Living Translation which accurately translates it directly into understandable modern language: “I cry out to you, O God, but You don’t answer. I stand before You, but You don’t even look. You have become cruel to me. You use Your Power to persecute me. You throw me to the whirlwind and destroy me in the storm and I know You are sending me to my death – the destination of all who live.”(Job 30:20-23).
Bildad the Shuhite! These three men were like modern day theologians. They were putting out PhD dissertation after PhD dissertation which belong more in Princeton and Yale, than in the Holy Halls of the Heavenly Tabernacle.(The body of the majority of these men’s errors can be found in the lengthy speeches of Job Chapters 4-37).