8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”
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Now we hear the rest of Job’s story. Two things pop out at me. The first is that Job gets his opportunity to talk with the LORD about what has happened, and in that moment, he is repentant and humble. He went from knowing about God to knowing God, two very different things. The second thing I notice is that Job’s wealth is doubled after this. He regains his status. This won’t happen with everyone in this life, but there is eternity where the scales of justice will be balanced. But I want to note something from our selected verse. The LORD says that Job has spoken the truth about God, but his friends have not. Even in Job’s despair, Job’s theology (what we believe about God) was correct. When he was under tremendous pressure, and that pressure was pushing things out of him, the stuff that was getting pushed about the LORD was true. I don’t know about you, but when there is pressure on me, I don’t necessarily ooze the best stuff. I notice that sometimes things get muttered under my breath that I would never want broadcast on a loudspeaker. When Job was under pressure Truth came out. What that means to me is that he had to be filled with Truth in order for Truth to get pushed out. Are we filling ourselves with Truth or junk? What we fill ourselves with is what will get pushed out in times of pressure.
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