Friday, September 7, 2012

Job 5 - The Poor Have Hope

Job's friend, Eliphaz, reminds Job who God is and what He has done and can do.  God is God.  The line that strikes me most this morning is "So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth." 

Throughout history, it seems, that when God's children are brought down low, when a people is dealt injustice, that is when they seem to have the most hope.  After all, when we have everything that we want, when everything is going smoothly for us in life, how many even consider what good might come in the future.  Who looks to the future, with hope, when we are satisfied with what we have today?  The poor who have nothing have hope.  If there is nothing else, there is always hope.

Job had everything and he lost it all.  He was brought down low.  We will see for how long he will hope in the LORD.  We will see what kind of justice God has in store for Job.

God's Peace - Pr. J.

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