God is not human. He is not a flawed man that we can simply sit down and meet with on equal footing. Job understood that God was holy and he was not. He recognized that he was spiritually bankrupt before God and couldn\u2019t even approach Him without there being someone to represent him, a mediator or go-between. Jesus said in the New Testament, \u201cBlessed are the poor in spirit” (Matt. 5:3), those who have an understanding of their spiritual poverty before God. Job had that understanding and because of it was going to be so blessed in just a few short chapters. Sadly, many of us today are much more blind to our own spiritual condition than Job was. In our arrogance, we seem to have no trouble placing ourselves on the same level as the Creator of the universe. We often hear people say to God, “Why are you doing this to me?” Spiritual eyesight is essential if we are to have a relationship with God.<\/p>\n
I read of a 50-year-old man who underwent a delicate new surgical procedure on both eyes. He had been born blind and had never experienced sight. When he woke from the successful surgery, he was overwhelmed. “I never would have dreamed that yellow is so\u2014yellow,” he exclaimed. “I don’t have the words. I am amazed by yellow, but red is my favorite color. I just can’t believe red. You could never know how wonderful everything is.” Mr. Eldens is probably right in that those of us who have lived a lifetime with sight, take it for granted and will never know just how wonderful it must be.<\/p>\n
However, every one of us is<\/em> born spiritually blind. Jesus told a religious man named Nicodemus that a second birth was required for spiritual sight (John 3). Jesus is waiting for us to recognize our poverty and to understand that we need someone to go to God on our behalf. The good news is He has already done just that on the cross. He is our mediator, our go-between, our surgeon, who has made a way for us to come before God, made a way for us to receive an amazing operation on our spiritual eyes so that we can go from dark blindness to vivid sight.<\/p>\n “LORD, please be our Mediator again this day between our sinful flesh and holy God.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n =============================================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n Job 9 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1<\/sup>\u00a0Then Job answered and said,\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0I know\u00a0it is\u00a0<\/em>so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?\u00a0\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0He is\u00a0<\/em>wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened\u00a0himself\u00a0<\/em>against him, and hath prospered?\u00a05<\/sup>\u00a0Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.\u00a06<\/sup>\u00a0Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.\u00a0\u00a09<\/sup>\u00a0Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.\u00a0\u00a010<\/sup>\u00a0Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0Lo, he goeth by me, and I see\u00a0him\u00a0<\/em>not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?\u00a0\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0If\u00a0<\/em>God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0How much less shall I answer him,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>choose out my words\u00a0to reason\u00a0<\/em>with him?\u00a015<\/sup>\u00a0Whom, though I were righteous,\u00a0yet\u00a0<\/em>would I not answer,\u00a0but\u00a0<\/em>I would make supplication to my judge.\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0If I had called, and he had answered me;\u00a0yet\u00a0<\/em>would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.\u00a017<\/sup>\u00a0For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.\u00a018<\/sup>\u00a0He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.\u00a019<\/sup>\u00a0If\u00a0I speak\u00a0<\/em>of strength, lo,\u00a0he is\u00a0<\/em>strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time\u00a0to plead\u00a0<\/em>?\u00a020<\/sup>\u00a0If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me:\u00a0if I say\u00a0<\/em>, I\u00a0am\u00a0<\/em>perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.\u00a021<\/sup>\u00a0Though\u00a0<\/em>I\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>perfect,\u00a0yet\u00a0<\/em>would I not know my soul: I would despise my life. 22<\/sup>\u00a0This\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>one\u00a0thing\u00a0<\/em>, therefore I said\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.\u00a023<\/sup>\u00a0If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.\u00a024<\/sup>\u00a0The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>who\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>he? 25<\/sup>\u00a0Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.\u00a026<\/sup>\u00a0They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle\u00a0that\u00a0<\/em>hasteth to the prey.\u00a0\u00a027<\/sup>\u00a0If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort\u00a0myself:\u00a0<\/em>28<\/sup>\u00a0I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.\u00a029<\/sup>\u00a0If\u00a0<\/em>I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?\u00a030<\/sup>\u00a0If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;\u00a031<\/sup>\u00a0Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.\u00a0\u00a032<\/sup>\u00a0For\u00a0he is\u00a0<\/em>not a man, as I\u00a0am, that\u00a0<\/em>I should answer him,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>we should come together in judgment.\u00a033<\/sup>\u00a0Neither is there any daysman betwixt us,\u00a0that\u00a0<\/em>might lay his hand upon us both.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a034<\/sup>\u00a0Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:\u00a035<\/sup>\u00a0Then\u00a0<\/em>would I speak, and not fear him; but\u00a0it is\u00a0<\/em>not so with me.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" God is not human. 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