Should I remain silent while you babble on?
When you mock God, shouldn't someone make you ashamed? You claim, 'My beliefs
are pure,' and 'I am clean in the sight of God.' If only God would speak; if
only He would tell you what He thinks! If only He would tell you the secrets of
wisdom, for true wisdom is not a simple matter. Listen! God is doubtless
punishing you far less than you deserve! Can you solve the mysteries of God?
Can you discover everything about the Almighty? Such knowledge is higher than
the heavens—and who are you? It is deeper than the underworld—what do you know?
It is broader than the earth and wider than the sea. Job 11:3-9
Another of Job’s friends, Zophar, speaks to
Job, assuming that Job’s condition and loss is due to sin. He even suggests
that God is punishing him—at a level that should be greater. That would just
give Job even greater troubles. At least Zophar recognizes that God’s knowledge
and wisdom are vast. True wisdom is not
something simple. God is complex—His wisdom is beyond measure. His knowledge is
above what we can fathom. The problem is that Zophar doesn’t really know Job. We know Job…and that he is a righteous
man. Why can’t his “friend” see that? Do you see your friends and family as
they really are in God’s eyes? Do you condemn them if they have problems,
thinking that they just aren’t right with God? Wise up. Can you see them as God
sees them and have mercy on them?
Prayer
~ Lord God, open our eyes that we would see others and even ourselves as You
see us. Give us wisdom and help us apply it so that we can understand You and
those around us.
© 2016 by Mickey M. Hunacek. All rights reserved.
All scripture quoted from the New Living Translation (NLT)
unless otherwise noted.
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