Job's response to God is "I am an idiot." He sees that what he has done is magnify
himself and his experience in such a way as to lose perspective. He is willing to bow before the Lord and
confess that he is insignificant in the grand scheme of things but the truth is
Job is significant, the Lord had noticed him in the beginning and now troubles
to reveal Himself to Job. Job knows the
Lord sees him and hears him. The three
friends come in for rebuke for speaking wrongly for and about the Lord (what
about Elihu?) and they are required to make sacrifices for their sin. Job is asked to pray for them and when he
does, the Lord greatly blesses Him. We need
the humility of Job to inform our lives lest we make the same mistakes he and
his friends made.
What does it mean to hate this life? Are we to be unconcerned about this
life? Surely we are not meant to live by
the motto, "Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die." We are to hate this life in the sense that we
place the value of eternal life higher than this temporal life. We must be willing to risk everything if need
be for the sake of eternity. We have
been given a life to use for the glory of God, to make Him known in a sinful
and broken world but in order to do so we have to give up all claims to
self-glorification and recognize that what Jesus has done for us is so
incredible that we will do anything for Him, not from obligation but from
love. He has shown us the way, speaking
of the time having come to be glorified while knowing that means death on a
cross. The Greeks signify the rest of
the world, now the world is looking for Jesus, the time has come.
The slave girl had a spirit that pointed out the truth, that
Paul was a servant of the Most High God so why was Paul annoyed? The Spirit of Divination was not from the
Lord, and the girl was simply to be pitied as she was nothing more than a means
of making money to her owners, she was a slave to the spirit and her
owners. She needed deliverance and Paul
did not need a false spirit to gain glory in this way. The Spirit in Paul overcame and cast out the
spirit in the girl, proving that it was not from God. The loss of income, however, angered the
girl's owners. Paul and Silas get a
beating and imprisonment for their righteousness and kindness to the girl. Life isn't fair.
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