Job 35

Job 35:1

GOD IS TEACHING JOB A LESSONThe minute Job says that he is right and that he is suffering in spite of being right, God must be wrong. That is the inference one must draw from that type of reasoning.

Job 35:5

This is the question that Job was raising. He was saying, “My little life is not affecting God.” The wonder of it all is that it does affect Him. A sin is something that is almost infinite. Abraham sinned in the case of that little handmaid Hagar, and the world is still paying for that sin in the conflicts of the Middle East. He took the Egyptian at the suggestion of Sarah, but Abraham and Sarah were wrong. How wrong were they? The results of their wrong have gone on for four thousand years. Sin is an awful thing, and it does affect God.

Job 35:8

You are always a witness, my friend. You are a preacher, regardless of who you are. The mother of a drunken man asked me to talk to her son. Once when he went wobbling down the street, I detoured him into my study. I told him what a low-down, dirty ingrate he was and how he disgraced his mother, breaking her heart. He just sat there and took all of it. Then I said, “You preach by your life. You are a preacher.” He stood up to fight me. I could call him anything in the world except a preacher. Well, my friend, you are a preacher! Your wickedness will hurt somebody, and your righteousness may help somebody.

Job 35:9

That is so wonderful! It is God who gives songs in the night. The only place of happiness is with God. Have you ever noticed the expression, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ …” (Eph_1:3)? What does that word blessed mean? It means “happy.” God is happy and He wants us happy. When Moses came down from the mountain, his face was shining because there was now forgiveness. There was now sacrifice for sin, and God would deal with man in grace. John writes, “And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full” (1Jn_1:4). He is the One who gives songs in the night. The night clubs have songs. They are the blues and you pay for them and you have a headache the next morning. It is God alone who can bring happiness to you. That is so important. And Elihu had learned that way back there in the patriarchal period. After we finish the discourse of Elihu, we will find that God will break through to Job. A storm will come up and break over Job, and out of that storm God will speak to him. It is through the storms of life that God wants to speak peace to you and me. Oh, let us not let circumstances come between our souls and our God!