The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 412


The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 412

A Bible snippet—and more

Job 19:23-29 (Job’s love for God)

25 But I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the end he will stand on the dust. 26 Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet I will see God in my flesh. 27 I will see him myself; my eyes will look at him, and not as a stranger. My heart longs within me. 28 If you say, “How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem lies with him?” 29 then be afraid of the sword, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.

The Christ/Messiah – Is The LORD – Call to Repentance

As far as knowing God and that ‘He is alive’, all of Creation (which includes mankind) knows this Truth – Psalm 19:1-14; Ecclesiastes 3:9-15 so it is very safe to say—there will be a judgment of the living and the dead (2 Timothy 4:1; Hebrews 9:27) and you and I will be there. Now Job in his day, circa 1500 BC understood this, but there are some additional things Job understood which I find interesting since these are the current things that we understand OR still wrestle with regarding one's current understanding of the Person of God.


Job understands that The Christ is coming again because the Redeemer ‘ever lives’ the earth belongs to the Messiah. Job understands that his flesh and physical body will perish. Peter 1:24 (CSB) For All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like a flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls. Job knows that with his very eyes and not those of another (rejecting reincarnation). Therefore he, just like you and me, we can long in heart for the SOON return of Jesus the Messiah.

Then Job does something interesting, he does not change the subject, but senses a problem, the problem is not with God, but man, even Job himself. “How can we pursue God as the problem of seeing Him lies within us – our humanity?” Seeing in our physical being that there is nothing we can physically do to prevent the pending sword of death, then be afraid! One cannot run or hide from death as it is the final chapter in our book of life. But, it is not the final chapter of God’s book of life, but you MUST be in that book to KNOW the rest of God’s EVERLASTING book.
1 John 4:17 (CJB)  Here is how love has been brought to maturity with us: as the Messiah is, so are we in the world. This gives us confidence for the Day of Judgment.

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