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Discipleship Focus: Character
- Character: Having the interior life that is necessary to support the work that God sets before a person. It is hearing from God and obeying. It is doing the right thing when nobody is looking.
Now we
arrive to the final chapter. We’ve heard
God speak. We’ve heard God’s wisdom come
to bear upon the flaws of the people of His creation. We’ve seen God come out on top. And then we get the true heart of God’s
character. What is it that happens when
God comes out on top?
When God
comes out on top, look at what happens.
God expects repentance and gets it.
But once the repentance happens, God forgives. Job’s friends repent and are forgiven. Job repents and is forgiven. And God puts the whole thing behind Him and
moves on.
God is
slandered throughout the whole book of Job.
Job’s friends make God out to be a person who uses prosperity to force
people how to behave. Job makes God out
to be a God who doesn’t defend the righteous.
God takes it and forgives.
We should
imitate this behave. It is not important
that our dominance be asserted. It is
not important that people know how right we are. What is important is that when the people
around us make the inevitable mistakes that they will make then we are forgiving
and put it behind us. Above all else,
God is a God of grace, love, and mercy.
We should imitate that – especially in the presence of genuine
repentance.
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