LESSONS FROM JOB #18 – SAME SONG, SECOND (AND THIRD) VERSE
"Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:….." (Job 15:1)
Chapters 15-31 of Job are the same song, with the trio singing the verses of stanzas two and three, and Job singing the chorus in response. The attacks of Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar continue the same theme – "Job, you are a sinner and you need to repent." Job's answering chorus is, "I don't understand why these things have happened to me and I can't find God for the answer." There is one thing that supports Job through these trials – His faith in the God he cannot see or feel. "I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth; and after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!" (Job 19:25-27). I may not have the answers to life's pains and struggles, but this I know: after I am dead and gone from this flesh, I shall see God. Oh, how my heart yearns within me! I love the song, "We Shall Behold Him, We Shall Behold Him, face to face in all of His glory." Then, if I still have any questions, they will be answered. Until then, my faith is in Him.
Love, Dad
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