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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Job 3:1-10

3:1 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. And Job said:

“Let the day perish on which I was born,
and the night that said,
‘A man is conceived.’
Let that day be darkness!
May God above not seek it,
nor light shine upon it.
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it.
Let clouds dwell upon it;
let the blackness of the day terrify it.
That night—let thick darkness seize it!
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
let it not come into the number of the months.
Behold, let that night be barren;
let no joyful cry enter it.
Let those curse it who curse the day,
who are ready to rouse up Leviathan.
Let the stars of its dawn be dark;
let it hope for light, but have none,
nor see the eyelids of the morning,
because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb,
nor hide trouble from my eyes. (ESV)

by Dale E. Rood

Maybe you have had times like this. With everything seeming to go against you, you wonder why you were born. There can’t be any purpose in this. When you understand the nature of Satan, you can understand the purposelessness of all that seems to be happening. In this moment, Job displays his real feelings. He is letting it all hang out. Sometimes we need to cry out to God this same way. God is not going to punish you for being real. Rather, in the process, he will reveal himself in truth. Cry out in your moments of anguish to your God, just as Job did. Be honest. God respects genuineness.



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Daily Bible Meditations are taken from The Helping Hand,a Sabbath School student quarterly for youth and adults. Copyright © 2008, Seventh Day Baptist Board of Christian Education, Inc.

Scripture quotations marked "ESV" are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service .