- Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment. Job 15:31 – Here when Job’s friend speaks of emptiness he means things like power, riches, or honor. Things that people can trust in other than God. Job’s friend shared that those who trust in these sort of things find themselves in the end with nothing and after seeing all that happened to Job he assumed the emptiness Job had was a result of trusting in things other than God. What we must see is what is the end result of our trusting in something other than God, emptiness. No one wants the end result of all their efforts in life to be emptiness, so we must be willing to seek after and trust in someone that will give us more. Where then is your daily trust placed in? If you were honest and found out it wasn’t God, what has been the normal result you’ve found yourself with in life? Complete fulfillment or something relating more to emptiness? God is here and desires to fill your life with everything opposite of emptiness. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1467
- Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty, running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield; because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins…Job 15:25-28 – Eliphaz, the companion of Job that is speaking in the chapter, is seeking to prove to Job that all his previous success in life was just an illusion covering the depth of his sin. While in our day fat is not something we necessarily desire, nor do we see it as a sign of success, in Job’s day it would have been. Fat on you meant that you must have an abundance of food and that you didn’t have to work out in the field. Here Eliphaz is saying your fat, your success, has covered your eyes Job and is hiding the sin that must be present in his life, and now that the “fat” is gone, we can all see that sin must have been present. Remember that much of what is said to Job doesn’t apply to Job’s situation, but it can apply to our story. “Fat” can cover our faces to the real sin hiding beneath. Whether in our life or someone else’s, we can see worldly success and assume God’s blessing that life. Yet this is not the message of scripture. We see many deep in sin who are deeply successful, and we see many who are deeply holy yet experiencing the worst of hardships. A lesson that we can takeaway from this passage is don’t assume that someone who is finding success is always following God. A church may look great from the outside, but have sin deep within it. A marriage may look good, but have deep wounds being covered up by sin. Investigate behind the fat, and allow your footsteps to follow the example of the holy and not just the successful. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2640
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