Year 5, Day 113: Job 19

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Discipleship Focus: Vision

• Vision: Vision is most needed when we are our most human. Vision is most needed when we have a typical D₂ moment. Vision is partnered by Time and Grace.

I don’t know that there is any greater verse in the Bible that displays vision quite like Job 19:25.  Remember that Job has been afflicted.  His friends accuse him.  He feels alone as if nobody can understand his condition.  I’ve spoken before about how it is completely understandable to think of Job as being in a pit of despair.

What is it that gets us out of the pit of despair?  Time.  Vision.  Grace.  Job has time to consider what is happening.  God has bestowed grace upon Job to process what is happening and forgive him for any mistaken conclusions that he might find.  So what is the vision?  The vision is that Job believes that one day his redeemer will be on this earth.  On day he will find himself in the presence of God and see God.  One day – when this whole world and all of its pain has passed away – Job will see God.  That’s a vision that nobody can take away from Job.

That’s the vision that allows Job to continue on.  That’s the vision that can conquer any kind of dark day that can come our way.  Our redeemer lives.  One day we shall see God.  What pit of despair is greater than the knowledge of that?

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