JOB 40:1\u20135<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cBehold, I am vile; what shall I answer You?\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
(Job 40:4)<\/i>.<\/p>\n
God rebuked Job for questioning His judgment: \u201cShall the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? He who rebukes God, let him answer it.\u201d It is as if God had to pull a response from Job, who on previous occasions had been quick to defend himself. But now, he is silent and God puts the question directly to him: \u201cWho are you to question me and presume to instruct me?\u201d Those who argue with God are assuming they are in a position to instruct God on a better way. But who is man, a creature, to instruct his Maker? Can a finite human being add to the inexhaustible wisdom and knowledge of God?<\/p>\n
Job recognizes his folly and responds in humility: \u201cBehold, I am vile; what shall I answer You? I lay my hand over my mouth.\u201d Like Isaiah before the glory of God, \u201cWoe is me, for I am undone!\u201d and Peter before Christ, \u201cAway from me for I am a sinner,\u201d Job confesses his sin before the holiness of God. \u201cJob now vilifies himself as much as ever he had justified and magnified himself,\u201d Henry wrote. \u201cRepentance changes men\u2019s opinion of themselves. Job had been too bold in demanding a conference with God, and thought he could make his part good with Him: but now he is convinced of his error, and owns himself utterly unable to stand before God or to produce any thing worth His notice, the veriest dung-hill worm that ever crawled upon God\u2019s ground.\u201d<\/p>\n
Job is silenced, not because he is downcast and sullen, but because he knew he had been wrong. \u201cThose that are truly sensible of their own sinfulness and vileness dare not justify themselves before God, but are ashamed that ever they entertained such a thought, and, in token of their shame, lay their hand upon their mouth.\u201d True repentance silences the offender and humbles him before God. If you have never been silenced before the holiness of God on account of your sin, if you have never confessed your unworthiness before His glorious throne, if you have never stopped making excuses and owned the guilt of your sin, you have never been truly repentant. May you follow the example of Job, lay your hand on your mouth because of the vileness of your sin, and, then, seek forgiveness in Christ who alone can pardon and cleanse you of your sin.<\/p>\n
CORAM DEO<\/b><\/p>\n
Obadiah<\/p>\n
Revelation 11<\/p>\n
Is there something you have been contending with God about? Maybe you haven\u2019t verbalized it like Job did, but maybe you have thought in your heart that God had been unjust about something. Have you thought that God could have done something better in your life or that you deserved better? If so, repent of your pride today.<\/p>\n
For further study: Ps. 51 \u2022 Isa. 6 \u2022 Luke 15:11\u201332; 18:9\u201314<\/i><\/p>\n
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