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Job is first of the books of wisdom in the Bible and thought to be the oldest text included in the Bible.

  • A Temporary Throne – 9

    A Temporary Throne – 9

    CHAPTER 9

    Job 1:1 NLT There once was a man named Job who lived in the land of Uz. He was blameless—a man of complete integrity. He feared God and stayed away from evil.

    I confess that I am a sinner. I am NOT a righteous man like Job.  I am most thankful for the grace of my personal redemption through Christ’s sacrifice on the cross.

    God granted Satan permission to test Job, even though Job had an exemplary prayer life. If any man’s prayers deserved answer and reward, it would be Job. And if any man lacking in prayer does NOT deserve an answer to infrequent prayer, it would be me.

    God grants permission to Satan to do whatever he wants to Job, except kill him. Job loses all of his family (except for his wife, who advised him, ‘Just curse God, and die’). Job loses everything, except his integrity.

    So Job makes righteous complaint to God. When God finally answers Job, it takes up most of four chapters of the Book.

    I am a sinner, now before the THRONE of God.

    Even with the saving grace of Christ, I dared not speak to the LORD GOD of any complaint, as if God had never heard my heart-felt prayers from deep within my mortal soul.

    ‘What does a mortal man say to God?’ I thought.

    (And I knew the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, already knew my thought and would not be surprised by my next words or next thoughts.)

    (How would I plead my case before the THRONE of the JUDGE of all men?) I thought of Jesus parable of an unjust judge:

    Luke 18 NRSV Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart.

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • A Temporary Throne – 8

    A Temporary Throne – 8

     CHAPTER 8

    YOU HAVE NOT LIFE EXCEPT I GRANT.

     

    Job 6: 8 “Oh, that I might have my request,
    That God would grant me the thing that I long for!
    9 That it would please God to crush me,
    That He would loose His hand and cut me off!

    I smiled in love, as I bowed my head in thankfulness.

    And my mouth was opened, as the joy of the Lord’s grace overflowed from my heart.

    “Thank you, Lord, for your mercy and grace.”

    I looked up toward our Lord God’s loving Face. (I cannot describe the Image of His loving countenance.)

    SPEAK WITH ME, ROGER.

    AGAIN, the Lord spoke to me personally; this time FACE to face, as I stood before the LORD at the THRONE of Heaven.

    “Lord, I am broken by your silence to my prayer.”

    SILENCE… I stood still… as it seemed time itself stood still.

    The Lord smiled warmly and looked deeply into my soul.

    “Lord, You have Eternity, yet You measure my mortal days.”

    Continued SILENCE…

    “I would witness your love in my remaining days; yet You, Lord, remain silent in answer to my prayers.”

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • Resh

    Resh

    Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

    Resh

    153 Look on my affliction and deliver me,
    for I do not forget your law.
    154 Plead my cause and redeem me;
    give me life according to your promise!

    Sickness is a terrible thing, is it not? Yet affliction is much more than just sickness.

    Exodus 3:7-8a Then the LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey…

    The Lord is my salvation and my redeemer. – [Psalm 27:1a, 19:14b]

    155 Salvation is far from the wicked,
    for they do not seek your statutes.

    רָשָׁע – rasha`

    When was the last time you heard a criminal called wicked? (Have you ever in this 21st century tolerance for the ways of the wicked?)

    Outline of Biblical Usage

    1. wicked, criminal

    • a. guilty one, one guilty of crime (subst)
    • b. wicked (hostile to God)
    • c. wicked, guilty of sin (against God or man)

    Job 21:17 “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out?
    That their calamity comes upon them?
    That God distributes pains in his anger?

    156 Great is your mercy, O Lord;
    give me life according to your rules.
    157 Many are my persecutors and my adversaries,
    but I do not swerve from your testimonies.

    Do our persecutors not pursue us and tempt us to swerve from the straight path of the Lord? Do our adversaries not always attempt to back us into a corner of darkness away from the Lord?

    158 I look at the faithless with disgust,
    because they do not keep your commands.

    The NASB translates more pointedly:

    I behold the treacherous and loathe them,
    Because they do not keep Your word (promise).

    159 Consider how I love your precepts!
    Give me life according to your steadfast love.
    160 The sum of your word is truth,
    and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.

    Psalm 119:160 KJV  Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

    Matthew 5 KJV The Words of Christ Jesus on the Mount of Olives

    17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

    18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

    19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

    20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.