The
Devotional
Comment:
Chapter
24 of Job reads like the evening news, except there are none of the pesky
commercials. Commercialism is like a religion, one manufacturer proselytes the
other of the same kind and all commercials are greedily design to take your
time and money from you. If it were possible and it is, the pertinent news of
the day could be expressed to the general public within fifteen minutes, or
better yet about as much time as it takes to read the 24th chapter
of Job. Has the world changed since the writing of Job regarding sin or the
sinner? No! The day still exposes the results of the night, does it not? And
God will judge, the day, the night and each individual; will He not?
Challenge: Job 24
Job is still disturbed by the
comments of Eliphaz so Job reflects on the details of life around him. Humanly we
often wonder why God does not Judge as we judge, we see wrong doing and we
think. BAM! Judgment time. We may even ask or tell God, “LORD it is time for
you to do something” but we see that God seems to do nothing at all and then we
remember words like, “vengeance is mine says the LORD, I will repay” Romans
12:19.
The neighbor may move the boundary of
another’s property, stolen something or treated others unwisely and you
perchance have observed the whole of it. All the way through chapter of Job 24
we see the foolish acts of mankind around us, even as Job sees and we say, “The
rebel is at it again, these do not know or care about the ways of God.”
Darkness seem to prevail in every
corner of the world, even today we see and live with the results of murder,
adultery, robbery and all kinds of evil darkness. The apostle John in his gospel
understood the world in the same vein of Job’s book by saying “and the light
shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it” John 1:5. Light
by itself overcomes darkness and just as this is true we see that God sent
another LIGHT into the world to overcome spiritual darkness.
The deeds of the world are worthy
of judgment, while the sin of the world is covered in the death and
resurrection of the LORD Jesus Christ. All of the works of mankind listed in
the Book of Job and other Books of the Holy Bible. Thus providing an accurate base
of account, recorded and eternally documented in the Books written by God.
Notice if you will, Revelation 20:11-15.
Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from
whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for
them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were
opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead
were judged according to their works (deeds), by the things which were written
in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades
delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one
according to his works (deeds). Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of
fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of
Life was cast into the lake of fire.
God is interested in you and me and what we do, if our
deeds/works are evil and our sin is covered in the Blood of Christ, how is that
working out for you? You may say in your heart that you are okay with it, but remember
this, God has appointed a day to judge the world, and the small and the great
will be judged alike in accordance with God’s absolute Justice and
Righteousness. Only those whose sin is covered will be with God in heaven.
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