- I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes. Job 42:5-6 – Job thought he knew all about God, yet this experience he went through opens his eyes to see God for who He really is. Possibly this past year has been that for you. You thought you knew God well and even had a solid walk with Him, but this year shook a lot of those ideas up. You learned just how much of a Savior and Healer in Jesus you need. You learned that church needs to be able to happen outside of the walls of a certain building. You learned your walk with God has to be something you invest in day to day and can’t just rest on the shoulders of pastors and teachers on Sundays to make it work well. God revealed Himself to us this year, but as with Job, how has that changed you and your ways of thinking? Did another year go by and your pursuit of God not deepen? Maybe then the “resolution” you want to make for the new year concerning your walk with God is simply to look for Him more. Job’s change took place when he saw God better, our change can happen that way too. 🥳 Happy New Year! I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1494
- And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Job 42:10 – After speaking with Job, and Job speaking in repentance back to the Lord, God turns his attention to Job’s three friends. God makes it clear that He was displeased with them and their words. They spoke of God incorrectly and this was something that needed to be made right. They were to take seven bulls and seven rams, go to Job, and offer a burnt offering to God with these sacrifices. After that, Job was to pray for them and God would accept Job’s prayer for his friends. Now in verse ten we see that God restored the fortunes of Job…but when? Was it after the whirlwind? Was it after Job himself repented? No, God restored the fortunes after Job prayed for his friends. Something clear in scripture is God’s desire for reconciliation and healing amongst His people. God’s design here was to bring Job, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar back in a right relationship with one another, and until the four were willing to do this, all four would have been in the wrong and Job would have still been in his loss. Let us prioritize the healing of broken relationships. Know God’s heart is not to be at odds with one another and to have a lack of forgiveness for one another. We are called to love one another. This doesn’t mean we have to be buddy-buddy with them, but we are called to seek peace out as far as it depends on us. And maybe the reason we aren’t in a state of peace within life is because we aren’t being faithful in this command to seek peace with those we are at odds with. Who then is someone you need to find reconciliation with and how could that process begin today? I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2667
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