Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Year 5, Day 119: Job 25

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Discipleship Focus: King

  • King: This is the pinnacle of the Kingdom Triangle.  When we look towards God’s position in the universe, we acknowledge that He is an omnipotent king.  Authority comes from Him.  Power comes through His authority.  He is looking for representatives for His kingdom.

What a great chapter of Job!  And no, before you ask, it isn’t because it is so short.  Neither is it because this is the last of the replies of Job’s friends that we have in this book.  What we have here in these verses is a simplistic perspective on humanity.

We are not righteous.  We will never compare to God.  We pale in comparison to the great Almighty.  We’re not God, and we never will be.

You see, God is king of the universe.  He set it into motion.  He made it out of nothing.  He hung the stars in the sky.  He shaped the image of man in His own image.  He is the king.

However, there’s an incredible message here.  While He may be king, He wants relationship with us.  While He may be king, He wants to know us intimately.  He’s not some great and far off king.  He’s a king that doesn’t care about our inability to compare to Him.  He lends us His righteousness.  He gives us a promise of a better life in the eternal.

Ultimately, Bildad is right on the surface but wrong where it counts.  We’ll never match up to God.  That much is true.  But that doesn’t matter to God.  God lends us His righteousness and desires relationship with us anyways.  God is an amazing king.

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