Poetry: Job 3-4

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My Highlights:

Job 3:
²³ Why is life given to a man
   whose way is hidden,
   whom God has hedged in?
²⁴ For sighing has become my daily food;
   my groans pour out like water.


My Take: Job has remarkably survived some of the worst news that a human being can take in. He has found out that not only his children, but his flock, houses, and everything that he has an emotional tie to is dead besides his wife. He spends the better part of Job 3 asking God why he is living, and cursing the day that he was born. I think that we as Christians tend to do this same thing. We tend to go down this self destructive trail when we know that we have sinned and are doing things that aren't exactly "WWJD?" approved. I know I can relate to Job in that when I have struggled and not done that which is pleasing to God over a period of time I feel huge remorse for it, but I'm not ready to feel like I'm in God's grace yet. I would rather tell myself that I'm just not worthy of being one of his children, I wasn't worthy of Jesus dying on the cross. How selfish of me to think that God desires for me to feel like I am need to be worthy of worshipping him, doesn't he call the sinners and the lame all over the entire bible.


Job 4 does a great job using a guy named Eliphaz to tell Job that he simply needs to remember that he is a flawed christian. THere is going to be times of grief in your life, and like the modern day christian, we can't just abandon our faith in a time like that.