How you doin? I'm slowly but surely becoming that old dude who doesn't like summer. Which is really weird for me, since I've lived most of my life for summer. Oh, well. Maybe God will change my heart in this matter. Stacey has a great outlook or copying mechanism for traffic and the inconsideration of seasonal visitors. I'm jealous of her when it comes to this. I'll try to follow her lead. I find that my drive to be out in front of life is causing hardship and separation from God. I find myself lured to sitting back and not being first. To let someone else go before me. I'm not sure if this makes sense. I may be starting a thought in this email that's in the middle of my thought in my head. My thought is about conceding my "rights". My human "rights" do nothing but make me angry and suffer. They only work if everyone in the world also agrees that I have "rights". That's a daunting task to convince everyone that I have the "right" to serve my "self". Come on God, help me stop raising the dead me to life. Falling back on the basics helps me. "Turn your eyes upon Jesus".
I'm finding Job to be a tough read. Job's friend Eliphaz, who is rebuked by God, sounds like he's making sense to me in Job 5. I do know in this story that Job doesn't receive his friends statements very well (Chapter 6). I also know that God says He's angry with Eliphaz for what he said. The only thing I can think of is, Eliphaz is speaking from his own opinion of what he sees and hears. He's not in a place of fellowship with God. Eliphaz seems to be very religious. Meaning that his position is that God is good to the good people and bad to the bad people. This is hard to understand because this is written before the old covenant. This is all before Moses. It would make better sense if the law was in place. Eliphaz isn't in agreement that God is good. His position is that Job has done something wrong and that he needs to repent. God says that Job is upright, fears the Lord, and turns from evil. To me that sounds like he has favor. Like I said before, this book in the Bible doesn't answer questions for me, it causes me to ask more questions. There's a part of God's character and nature that I'm missing here. I will be praying for understanding. "Turn your eyes upon Jesus" today.
PS Stacey pointed out that it sounds like Eliphaz is speaking from his life's experience vs his relationship with God. That makes sense to me.
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