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PAIN OF WRONG ASSUMPTIONS

10^TH ,MAY 2022

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:1 Samuel 27-29

TEXT: Job 22:1-20

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

2 “Can a man be profitable to God, Though he who is wise may be profitable to himself?
3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or is it gain to Him that you make your ways blameless?

4 “Is it because of your fear of Him that He corrects you, And enters into judgment with you?
5 Is not your wickedness great, And your iniquity without end?
6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for no reason, And stripped the naked of their clothing.
7 You have not given the weary water to drink, And you have withheld bread from the hungry.
8 But the mighty man possessed the land, And the honorable man dwelt in it.
9 You have sent widows away empty, And the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
10 Therefore snares are all around you, And sudden fear troubles you,
11 Or darkness so that you cannot see; And an abundance of water covers you.

12 “Is not God in the height of heaven? And see the highest stars, how lofty they are!
13 And you say, ‘What does God know? Can He judge through the deep darkness?
14 Thick clouds cover Him, so that He cannot see, And He walks above the circle of heaven.’
15 Will you keep to the old way Which wicked men have trod,
16 Who were cut down before their time, Whose foundations were swept away by a flood?
17 They said to God, ‘Depart from us! What can the Almighty do to them?’
18 Yet He filled their houses with good things; But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

19 “The righteous see it and are glad, And the innocent laugh at them:
20 ‘Surely our adversaries are cut down, And the fire consumes their remnant.’

KEY VERSE: Job 22:7,10

“Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee.”

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Man’s perceptions do not represent God’s opinion about you.

THE MESSAGE:

Wrong assumptions about a person the Lord Himself has judged righteous often ends up with equally misleading conclusions. This is the case of many today. What they present as facts concerning another personality often run like a fairy tale of fiction, completely dissimilar to the position of God.

Painting Job as embodying wickedness, Eliphaz robes the suffering man in an apparel of sin. Job, Eliphaz says, has stripped the naked of their clothing. Failing to offer water to the fainting, Job has also “withholden bread from the hungry... [and] sent widows away empty” while remaining indifferent when “the arms of the fatherless have been broken”. For these reasons, he wrongly concludes, “snares are about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee”.

In the world, today, believers would also contend with faulty and sometimes sacrilegious retort to what we preach and our righteous lifestyle. When there is persecution, ill health or lack, they would charge us with unfounded allegations to tar us with sin. As we receive these buffeting responses, the Lord wants us to take courage in His promises, not in the unsubstantiated accusations of men.

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The believer should dwell on the word of God, even in the midst of campaigns of calumny against our resolve to follow the Lord in this crooked world. Since the coming of the Lord is imminent, instead of worrying about man’s views, we should hold on to the truth, be watchful and ready to receive Him.

DO HAVE A BLESSED DAY

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