“Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, But I would make supplication to my judge. If I had called, and he had answered me; Yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.”
Job 9:15-16 KJV
Job replied to his friend Bildad the Shuhite, “Even though I’m innocent I could never prove it; I can only throw myself on the Judge’s mercy. If I called on God and He Himself answered me, then, and only then, would I believe that He’d heard me”. Job knew the greatness of God and in this hurting and grieving moment, he sought a comforting word. Unfortunately for Job, his friends didn’t seem to empathise with him and he thought that God was too high and lofty, too distant and wouldn’t answer him. We know how God did answer him later! But we identify with Job’s need for comfort and we thank God that He spared not His own Son but delivered Him up for us all through the Cross and the new covenant He made with us. So now we have God the Holy Spirit Who comforts, guides and leads us. We talk to Him, we unburden our heart to Him because He hears us and answers us. God said, “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” Thank You, Father, for loving us. Amen!
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