SPIRITUAL
DIARY FOR 11/20/2011 8:12:21 PM
My Worship Time
Focus: “Bildad’s Shortest Speech”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Job
25:1-6
Message
of the verses: This 25th
chapter of Job is the shortest chapter in the book, as is the speech that is
given in it is also the shortest. In
today’s SD we begin a new chapter in Dr. Wiersbe’s commentary on Job and he
entitles this chapter “How Faint A
Whisper!” This chapter covers four
chapters in the book of Job, 25-28 and three of the chapters contain speeches
by Job. We will just look at this short
25th chapter in this SD.
“1
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, 2 "Dominion and awe belong to Him Who
establishes peace in His heights. 3 “Is there any number to His troops? And
upon whom does His light not rise? 4 “How then can a man be just with God? Or
how can he be clean who is born of woman? 5 “If even the moon has no brightness
And the stars are not pure in His sight, 6 How much less man, that maggot, And
the son of man, that worm!’” (NASB)
“1
Bildad the Shuhite again attacked Job: 2 "God is sovereign, God is
fearsome—everything in the cosmos fits and works in his plan. 3 Can anyone
count his angel armies? Is there any place where his light doesn’t shine? 4 How
can a mere mortal presume to stand up to God? How can an ordinary person
pretend to be guiltless? 5 Why, even the moon has its flaws, even the stars aren’t
perfect in God’s eyes, 6 So how much less, plain men and women—slugs and
maggots by comparison!’” (Message)
The first three verses focus on
God’s power and then the last three verses focus in on God’s justice. These are actually two of God’s attributes
that are being discussed here. Job’s
friends speak as if they know all about God and I would suppose that this is
true in today’s world too. Bishop Brooke
F. Westcott said the following, “Every year makes me tremble at the daring with
which people speak of spiritual things.”
When we get to the end of this book and hear what the Lord has to say we
will see that He tells Job and all of his friends that they actually know
little about God, however God will ask Job to make a sacrifice for his friends.
When we read the Bible we see that
God is all powerful, and we can see this demonstrated throughout all of
Scripture. We surely see it in creation
and even in the book of Job we will see God speak of His creation. We see God’s power throughout the OT when we
begin to think about the flood, and the ten miracles that God did to get Israel
out of Egypt. When we get to the NT we
see the power of God in the Lord Jesus Christ as He raised people from the
dead, when He calmed the storms, when He healed many people, and when He walked
on the water. The resurrection of Jesus
Christ demonstrates the power of God too.
We now look at the justice of God
and since God is light and in Him is no darkness we know by this that He is
just, but man is not for all men are born of woman and are fathered by men and
therefore the sin nature is passed down by the man, so all are born with this
sin nature. Psalm 51:5 says, “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.”
Remember that is the importance of the virgin birth. We need to also remember that Job is saying
that it was not his sin that caused all these problems to fall on him.
Bildad speaks of the brilliance of
the moon and the stars and says that they are not pure, so how can man claim to
be pure or righteous before God.
As we look at the next three
chapters we will see Job’s reply to Bildad.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: I can’t
understand it but it seems to me that Job is kind of wearing me down. Job is a book in the Bible that I have not
really looked forward to doing a study of, for as I mentioned before I have
never really understood certain parts of Job, especially the parts where the
men are speaking to each other, they are difficult for me to understand. I am beginning to understand more about the
book of Job through the help of Warren Wiersbe’s commentary on Job, but for some
reason I am struggling to keep up with my study, as I have hardly ever waited
to the evening to do my SD, and for the last three days it has been done in the
evening.
I think that one of the things that
I have learned from this short section is that I need to be careful when
talking about certain things from the Scripture that perhaps I do not know as
much about as I think I do. I need to
study before talking about certain things.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
1.
2Timothy
2:15.
2.
Philippians
4:11b.
3.
Romans
12:1-2.
4.
Ephesians
6:10-18.
5.
Proverbs 3:5-6.
6.
Psalm
139:23-24.
7.
Luke 22:40b
& 46b.
11/20/2011
8:44:46 PM
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