Good Morning “Happily Mocked”. Today we are in Job 12.
Job continues to do his best to set his friends straight. He’s essentially telling them, “You’re stating the obvious. Who on Earth doesn’t know the things you are stating about God. You’re spewing facts, but they don’t apply here.” They don’t get it. They’re blinded by their own arrogance, they’re enlightened, woke even. You see there really is nothing new under the sun.
Jobs friends are some of the first “prosperity gospel” propagators. And here we thought that was a relatively new movement. Gods economy does NOT include the sort of Christian karma suggested. Do good and you are always blessed here on earth. Do bad and you’re not.
Maybe you too have found yourself mocked because of your Biblically accurate beliefs by those whose beliefs are skewed by the politically correct - accepted world. Job takes time to point out that Gods Truth is demonstrated in the natural world around us - how can they not see it? How can we not (Romans 1:18-31)?
Stay strong. Resist the temptation to go with the flow, be willing to be mocked for Truth - it’s all we have (Matthew 5:11-13).
“Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers. Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.” Psalms 1:1-4 NIV
Where and with whom we stand matters. It’s not “blind faith”, as mockers suggest, when it’s been made plain to us.
“since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.”
Romans 1:19 NIV
Love you all! Dig in!
Job continues to do his best to set his friends straight. He’s essentially telling them, “You’re stating the obvious. Who on Earth doesn’t know the things you are stating about God. You’re spewing facts, but they don’t apply here.” They don’t get it. They’re blinded by their own arrogance, they’re enlightened, woke even. You see there really is nothing new under the sun.
Jobs friends are some of the first “prosperity gospel” propagators. And here we thought that was a relatively new movement. Gods economy does NOT include the sort of Christian karma suggested. Do good and you are always blessed here on earth. Do bad and you’re not.
Maybe you too have found yourself mocked because of your Biblically accurate beliefs by those whose beliefs are skewed by the politically correct - accepted world. Job takes time to point out that Gods Truth is demonstrated in the natural world around us - how can they not see it? How can we not (Romans 1:18-31)?
Stay strong. Resist the temptation to go with the flow, be willing to be mocked for Truth - it’s all we have (Matthew 5:11-13).
“Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers. Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.” Psalms 1:1-4 NIV
Where and with whom we stand matters. It’s not “blind faith”, as mockers suggest, when it’s been made plain to us.
“since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.”
Romans 1:19 NIV
Love you all! Dig in!
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