In “Other” Words…

Quote by Richard Cecil

I am going to approach this quote a little different. I am going to break it down and let the book of Job speak for me.

WE ARE URGENT ABOUT THE BODY:

Job 2:4 “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give all he has for his own life. 5 But stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.”

HE IS ABOUT THE SOUL:

But Job learned there was more to life than loss and pain:

God said, “”Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him who accuses God answer him!”

Job replies,

Job 42:3 You (God) asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?’
(Job replied) Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.

WE CALL FOR PRESENT COMFORTS:

Job wanted the pain of life to go away, he wants peace.

Job 3: 24 -26 “For sighing comes to me instead of food; my groans pour out like water

What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happen to me.

I have no peace, no quietness; I have no rest, but only turmoil.”

HE CONSIDERS OUR EVER LASTING REST:

Job 38:1 “Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm.”

God is there with us, I love the phrase “out of the storm. “

Job 38:2 God asks: “Who is this that darkens my counsel with words without knowledge.”

Do you know everything God asks? Are you the one responsible for all things? Then do not be wrapped up in present comforts, do not speak “words without knowledge.

AND THEREFORE WHEN HE SENDS NOT THE VERY THINGS WE ASK:

Job 3:3 “May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is born!’”

HE HEARS US BY SENDING GREATER THAN WE CAN ASK OR THINK:

Job 42:12 “The LORD blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the first.”

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