Isn’t that always the way that we are good and upright, or think we are and then we open our mouth’s! Would that our impurity didn’t have to come out of our mouths so clearly as it is oft hidden in our hearts? No, we have to open our mouth’s! Not too foul for Christ to cleanse it, though!
“Wash me Savior, lest I die.”Amazing that Job was so committed to God in His pain and suffering and what an example for us to follow to take our griefs and our pains to God first. I hate this, Lord, was His lament! It is me, standing in the need of prayer. He has no time to pray for the needs of others and we are oft in that state ourselves. Are we not? I hate this and I hate it and I hate myself, even because the pain is so intense. No pretense before God. God gave satan leave to expose Job’s heart, for what? For us men and for our instruction. What do we do ? Cry out to God. Friends aside, wife and others aside. God alone is our complete confidant.
Others open their mouths and what happens? They stab us with words, but God already has our cries in His hands. They can’t stop our cries out to God. Their paining us is not their fault and it is not the work of the devil either, if you notice. Satan didn’t ask to use the friends, they just came and were no assistance, accept in their presence. Expect help from God only and the presence of the friends, though it hurts all the worse, can represent God, if they come to represent God in their commiserating. Was silence golden or were words golden, in the interaction.
Should Job not have spoken, we would have no beauty of the closeness of his heart to God, in the midst of the most intense suffering. Our Savior bore the eternal punishment, but His holiness could not allow sinful speech. We see the reality of human suffering and how very compassionate God is to us in our unbelieving rants, at times. Jesus paid it all.Jesus met Job and was silently an audience to his pain, even unseen.
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