This is the third week of our hop skip and a jump through Job.
The sections from Job we are reading this week are: Job 14:7-17; 19:23-27
The Sermon title is Hear Me God!
Early Thoughts: Job has been pleading with God for several chapters now, while his
friends continue to try and convince him to confess what he has done to
deserve his "punishment". God has remained silent (and will do so for
several chapters yet).
Still Job is steadfast.
Still Job demands an accounting from God. Still Job insists that God is
present in all this mess. Still Job wants to have it out with God, to
see God face-to-face, presumably to plead his case in personal contact.
Job still trusts in God and God's presence. Even though Job feels unjustly treated by God Job still trusts in God.
Because
Job trusts that God is there, that the relationship has not been
severed, Job trusts that God hears and listens. In this lies a teaching
for us.
Sometimes it is tempting to think that we are
alone. Sometimes it feels like our ardent prayers fall lifeless to the
ground. Sometimes we echo Psalm 22 "my God my God why have you forsaken
me" But we are not alone. God remains in relationship with us. God hears
our anguished cries. There may be some hope in that, even if it does
not take away the fact that life is falling apart around us.
Can we trust that this is true?
--Gord
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