Wednesday 26 Jun 2013

Wednesday Reading: Job 12:6-11

Key Verse: Job 12:6
6  The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

Devotion:
We sometimes look at our lives and wonder if things could get worse… What about looking at Job’s life and seeing just how bad things can get – at least how bad they can get without actually dying! We may see that dying is the worst thing that can happen to us, after all we will no longer be alive! But there are plenty of things that will probably have us begging to die rather continuing to live in those circumstances.

Even though Job went through so much pain and agony and agonised over being allowed to die rather than having to live under these pains he was going through, he continued to lift up God as his creator God. We can look at things in a very worldly way and wonder why thieves and murders should be allowed to live the way they are without being put to death or being “zapped” by God. But then we need to remember what we are and what God is. We are just another human being, another one of those people that are going to sin sooner or later, another sinner. God does not sin…

We only need to look at the animals and birds to find out just how special we actually are. The animals will show us our awesome God through their dependence upon Him for the lives they live. They would not be around if it were not for God. They are not like thieves and murders because they simply obey God and His creation laws. They continue to live according to His design and totally depend on Him for their existence. We have been given a choice as to how we would like to live and we choose which laws we are going to follow or not. If we choose to break the laws then we are choosing to separate ourselves from God because He cannot abide sin.

None of the animals, or us for that matter, were created through some random chance or accidental happening. God created things after their own kind so that they can exist and continue to breed after their own kind. Job saw that and understood that. He also understood that God created us in His own image so that we could have free will and choice. We can choose to sin and live in sin, or we can choose to break away from that sin so that we can walk closer with Him every day. We cannot judge God or others, but we can judge the way that we are because God has given us a conscience that allows us to see good and bad.

Points to Ponder:
Do you listen to your conscience?

Do you listen to God?