Quiet Time 2/22/2015
Job Prays In the Face of Adversity
Job 7:17-21
I read yesterday how Job had lost everything and yet he
blessed God. In succeeding chapters,
Satan would be given leave to attack his health without taking his life. His
friends had come and begun pontificating as to the reason for his suffering.
The gist of the speech of Eliphaz in the previous chapters was that if Job
would confess his sins, God would restore his losses. In the Transformation Study Bible, Wiersbe
notes, “If Job had given up his integrity and confessed, he would have
disgraced Jehovah and vindicated Satan” (Transformation
Study Bible). Now in these verses He cries out to God, asking God to show
him how his life has not aligned with His expectations. Years later, David
would utter a similar prayer in Psalm 139:23-24 as he invited God to search him
and then to lead him in a way that is pleasing to Him. Our response to
adversity will frequently reveal our concept of God.
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