HEAR Journaling Job Chapter 11
Highlight Job 11:13-16 New Living Translation
Zophar’s First Response to Job
13 “If only you would prepare your heart and lift up your hands to him in prayer!14 Get rid of your sins, and leave all iniquity behind you.15 Then your face will brighten with innocence. You will be strong and free of fear.16 You will forget your misery; it will be like water flowing away.
Explain – Zophar, Job’s third friend, expressed his thoughts. He suggested that Job needed to prepare his heart and lift up his hands to God in prayer. Zophar said that Job needed to get rid of his sins and all will be better. He suggested that Job would forget his misery with a brighter life. Zofar was as clueless to the source of Job’s problem as Job’s other two friends, Eliphaz and Bildad. Job was not tested because of his sins. He was tested because God chose him to be tested.
Apply – We all benefit for the suffering and testing of Job, and the Bible Book of Job that records his testing, trials, and responses that provide so many very valuable life lessons for us as we walk our journey with the Lord. We do have the Holy Spirit to walk through this perilous life with us. He will provide us comfort when even those close to us do not understand.
John 14:16-17 ESV And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
1 Corinthians 2:10-13 ESV 10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.[d]
We should always seek God’s wisdom through the Holy Spirit before ministering to anyone, we need to be sensitive to what He will reveal to us and what we should say and share with others.
Respond – Lord, thank You for this purposeful truth. Help me Lord to be an effective advocate for You to the people that I encounter. Help me see what You would have me see, think what You would have me think, and do what You would have me do including to say what You would direct me to share. Amen.
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