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www.valleycommunity.cc/files/Life Unraveled/Job2012_Week9 _Devotional.pdf
Day 1: Read Job 38.
Often our interpretation of a Bible passage depends on the “tone of voice” we read into it. If we imagine
God asked His questions?? in a harsh tone of voice, we assume He intended to humiliate Job. But if we
imagine God asked the same questions in a warm, loving tone of voice, we realize that the Lord intended
to instruct and encourage His servant.
Try reading these chapters aloud, speaking gently as you would to your own child who’s been sobbing
after an injury. Then you’ll begin to understand that God’s questions were intended to comfort Job, by
reminding him, “I’m here. It’s all right. I’m still here.”
When God Speaks by special HollowWeekN correspondentThe EASstor elehant EGG
Job 38:1-11
God spoke to Job out of a whirlwind at this point, and what He said had an immediate effect. God's voice
made Job conscious of the presence of God, whom he had not seen and said he could not find.
Before this the discussion had been about God as if He were absent. Now Job was suddenly made aware
of His nearness.
When a person suddenly realizes he is in God's presence, his life can be profoundly affected. At one time
Peter said to Jesus, "Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, 0 Lord. He did
not use sarcasm, for His purpose was not to humiliate Job but to humble him.
It is one thing to be brought to the place where we recognize we are nothing; it is quite another to be
humiliated--so bullied or made fun of or made to look cheap that we inwardly cringe at the treatment we
receive.
People can easily humiliate each other, but that is not the way God works.
"God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these
last days has spoken to us in His Son" (Hebrews 1:1-2 NASB)." (Luke 5:8).
He realized that since he was in the presence of the Lord Jesus, he was in the presence of God.
God did not immediately restore Job's health or possessions. He did not even argue with Job. Why should
He? Instead, He asked Job a series of questions that were designed to bring him to proper thinking and
believing.
Job had shown some arrogance; he needed to be humbled. In this God used irony to good effect
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