Job 25 - God is God

OK.  So I gotta tell you.  Today, I am really thinking like Bildad.  The whole chapter is Bildad's reply and Bildad's reply is basically this: God is God.  He's all it!  We're not! Simple stuff.  Lucky thing for us this God loves us.

Make sure you read the chapter today :)  It is very short! 6 verses! I am pre-writing.  I will be somewhere around Austin, TX when it gets posted. But, as my mind begins to fade after this many hours in one day and I will be getting up in 4 hours, I think I'll try to figure out how to write Saturdays on Saturday! 

Have a blessed day!  God's Peace - Pr. J

 

 

Job 18 - Respect and Love?

Job's getting accused, again.  Pretty much, Bildad is saying that the wages of sin is death and you are a sinner and you have received what you deserve... repent.! 

Now, I don't know about you, but reading all these accusations against Job is getting just a little much.  I'm imagining what it would feel like to hear all of this law thrown at you when you are at your lowest.  Instead of help, accusations and persecution.  There are good purposes for the law, but there comes a time when a little good news; when a little loving compassion would go a whole lot further.

Not long ago, one of my sermons was about respecting one another.  Now, respect, I think, is usually earned.  It is earned by one's actions, by one's position, by many things.  But, love is not earned.  Love just is.  Job, according to the story, has lived a life that should have earned his friends respect.  He receives none.  And, as a friend of these men, one would think they would show a little more loving compassion.  He receives none.  Sadly, this story is not only a story from history.  It is the story of today, as well. Where in this world can we turn so that one can be treated with both love and respect?  Hopefully, it is the church.  Again, sadly that isn't always so.

May God help us to treat one another with respect even as the love of Christ, who abides in all who believe, loves our neighbor, loves our friends.

God's Peace - Pr. J