Saturday, October 14, 2017

Job 3:1 says, After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.  Though Job did not curse God as Satan said he would, Job did curse his very existence.  Job had reminded his wife that we should remain faithful to God, no matter our circumstances, but now he was in effect questioning God's wisdom in even creating Job.  I believe if we reach the point where we believe that life has no purpose and it would be better if we had never even been born, we are overlooking the eternal nature of our spirit.  No matter what happens here, we are assured of an everlasting relationship with God if we are truly His through faith in Christ.  Verse two adds, And Job spake, and said,  Job broke the silence between his friends and himself.  Verse three continues, Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.  Job began to regret his very existence.  I am not sure how bad things would have to get to bring us to this thought about life, but I do believe that if we reach such a conclusion that we have placed ourselves in the place of God.  God created us all for a purpose and life is never a mistake.   Verse four states, Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.  Job said that he not only wished that he had never been born, but he wished God had never even thought to create him, saying he wished that day had just been darkness.  Verse five adds, Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.  Job regretted his birth so much that he felt the day of his birth should have been a day of death.  In this statement also we can say that Job felt that he knew more than God did.  Verse six continues, As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.  I believe that Job was once again saying that he wished the day of his birth had never happened.  He wished that day and night had been pure darkness and had never appeared on the calendar.  Verse seven says, Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.  He again was just wishing not only that he had never been born, but that the whole day of his birth could be eliminated.  Yet, his birth was not the only thing that occurred that day, and I believe that we can say at this point Job had become self-centered.  When things are going badly in our lives, hopefully we will never see our lives as only affecting us.  There are still many other people who have their own lives to live.  Verse eight adds, Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.  Job may not have cursed God and died, as his wife suggested he do, but he was asking that the day of his birth be cursed.  Verse nine continues, Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:  I believe that Job was just continuing to wish the day of his birth had never existed.  Verse ten concludes, Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.  Job said that since his mother had conceived and given birth to him that it would be better if that day did not exist, since he was now in such sorrow.  Job's sin was in questioning God, which he was certainly doing by saying that his birth was a mistake.  We must never allow ourselves to question God, even when the world around us seems to be coming apart.  Even if we are suffering, God is still with us, as He was with Job.

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