He is Risen (4/12/2020)

Our scripture mediation today is the testimony of Job. 

• Struck by God. 
• Stripped of possessions.  
• Tormented by his “friends”. 
• And his legacy dead. 

He longed for . . . a pen!

Job 19:23-27

“Oh that my words were written!

Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

Oh that with an iron pen and lead

they were engraved in the rock forever!

For I know that my Redeemer lives,

and at the last he will stand upon the earth.

And after my skin has been thus destroyed,

yet in my flesh I shall see God,

whom I shall see for myself,

and my eyes shall behold, and not another.

My heart faints within me!

With it he recorded his testimony for us to read today!  For he had met the Redeemer that just a few chapters earlier seemed out of reach:

Job 9:29-35

Since I am already found guilty,

why should I struggle in vain?

Even if I washed myself with soap

and my hands with cleansing powder,

you would plunge me into a slime pit

so that even my clothes would detest me.

“He is not a mere mortal like me that I might answer him,

that we might confront each other in court.

If only there were someone to mediate between us,

someone to bring us together,

someone to remove God’s rod from me,

so that his terror would frighten me no more.

Then I would speak up without fear of him,

but as it now stands with me, I cannot.

Like Job, our Redeemer lives!

HE IS RISEN!