- There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both. Job 9:33 – This is not our case. While for Job he felt as if there was no arbiter, no mediator, no one to stand between the Father and himself to find peace, we do have that. Jesus is the great Mediator between us and the Father. He finds reconciliation between us and the Father and is our atonement for all the wrongdoings we’ve done. He speaks when we can’t speak and saves when we can’t even stand. When it’s says in verse 2, “But how can a man be in the right before God?” This only can happen for us with Jesus being our mediator. He makes us right before God. Let us then be filled with joy this morning that we have the opportunity to be right before our Holy God. Not as a result of any thing we did, but all because of Jesus our mediator. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1461
- If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me. Job 9:30-31 – In our world today, especially post pandemic, we have learned some efficient ways to get ourselves clean. We have powerful soaps that can kill any germ that was even thinking about getting on us. We have pressure sprayers that can spray water so powerfully on things that it cuts metal. Here Job acknowledges that even the grandest ways of cleaning himself isn’t enough. Using snow, the purest of water they could think of, couldn’t clean himself from his sin. Using lye, the most powerful of soap they had, couldn’t clean himself of his sin either. If he tried to clean himself of his sin, even with the grandest of ways he could think of, he’d still be so spiritually dirty that even his own clothes wouldn’t want to hang on him. Such is our story with God today when it comes to the cleansing of our sin. No soap and water will cut it. No grand offerings to God from us will do it either. Only through the sacrifice of Jesus can we be clean and clothed in pure white garments. If your life has been about cleaning yourself up for God to win His affection, you’ve been scrubbing for nothing. Find yourself humbly coming before the God who does the washing for us. Know you can approach Him caked in sin, and He will embrace you and make you clean. He is the only one who can embrace a sinner, and instead of our dirt rubbing off on Him, His purity rubs off on us. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2634
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