Week 33/52

Week 33: My Daily Portion:

Monday: Esther 9-10, Psalms 42.
Tuesday: Job 1-2, Psalms 43.
Wednesday: Job 3-4, Psalms 44.
Thursday: Job 5-6, Psalms 45.
Friday: Job 7-8, Psalms 46.
Saturday: Job 9-10, Psalms 47.
Sunday: Job 11-12, Psalms 48.

Job 19:25-27
For I know that my Redeemer lives,
And He shall stand at last on the earth; And after my skin is destroyed, this I know,
That in my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself,
And my eyes shall behold, and not another.
How my heart yearns within me!
NKJV

Job 42:5-6
"I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear,But now my eye sees You.
Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes."
NKJV

This is the wonderful beauty of the Scriptures! We see Jobs cry of faith and belief in His God. His cry needs to be our cry. His yearning needs to be our yearning. His level of confidence in seeing the Lord with his own eyes, needs to be our confidence too, but then when Job does get to see God....when he does behold the Lord with his own eyes....his response is also very much what ours needs to be.

When Job sees God as God, he also sees himself as limited in his own understanding. He sees his own need to repent in response to Gods perfection.

This intense yearning for God and subsequent repentance at beholding Him, is the exact attitude that God loves. He responds to the passionate cry, and yet when He makes His appearance and is met with an attitude of humility, he rewards the contrite soul.

How about us? Do we long for the appearance, or for the coming of Christ? The Bible teaches us in Zechariah 12:10, that when we do see Him and our eyes behold Him, he will pour out on us a spirit of grace, and it the moment we see Jesus, the one we have pierced, we will look on him and mourn. While we rejoice at His coming, there is also a gazing at Him that causes us to weep in His very presence - because of who He is and what He has done for us.

I believe Job gives us this picture so we, too can respond rightly in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. May He find this same attitude in us when He comes.