Week 22: Job 29 to Psalm 6

This week's reading entails:

• Weekend: Job 29 - 31
• Monday: Job 32 - 34
• Tuesday: Job 35 - 37
• Wednesday: Job 38 - 39
• Thursday: Job 40 - 42
• Friday: Psalm 1 - 6

This week we'll end the book of Job. We read Job's last words to his friends. He maintains his innocence before them and before God. For some reason, this attitude keeps infuriating his friends. They cannot understand why he maintains his innocence before God. To them it is very clear: God's curse is upon Job, so that must be a consequence of his sin. Sometimes it is... but we can never take the position of The Judge when it comes to things like this. Job's youngest friend, Elihu, most definitely takes this stand in chapters 32 to 37. Then in Chapters 38 to 41 we have a couple remarkable chapters where God Himself speaks. He speaks of all the miracles in creation and His mighty deeds. When Job hears all this, all he can say is "I'm unworthy, how can I reply to you? I spoke once, but I have no answer, twice but I will say no more." Job's attitude is one we can learn from ... a lot! It's no wonder that God loved him so much. He was a remarkable man with a remarkable faith in the Almighty. God blesses him after all this, and the end of Job's life is even better than how it started. God is faithful.

After finishing the book of Job, we will make a start with the book of Psalms on Friday. Psalm 1 is a wonderful praise to the upright person, who meditate on God's law. You, who have committed to reading the Bible in 1 year, are such a person. You are blessed, and you are like "a tree planted by streams of water".

Have a great week.
Dick