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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Job 30:1-31
What a contrast there is between this chapter and the preceding one! One day heaped with honour, enjoying flattering popularity, the next day Job found himself despised and trodden underfoot. The world is hypocritical and treacherous. Believers who have thought they could put their trust in it for a while, have sooner or later made this painful discovery. The human heart finds pleasure in the misfortune of others. Did it not rejoice maliciously in the humiliation of Jesus? (compare v. 9 with Psalms 69:12).
Job’s earthly blessings had faded away. The Christian’s blessings, on the other hand, are "spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ" (Ephesians 1:3). Neither Satan, nor the world, nor death itself will ever be able to take them away. Job who thought his piety entitled him to prosperity is now to complain to God. Are we sure that we never do this? And with apparently much less reason!
"I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me" (v. 20). These are the words of Psalms 22:2. But what a contrast between Job’s bitterness which attributes feelings of hatred and cruelty to God (v. 21) and the perfect submission of the Lord Jesus who never for a moment lost His confidence in His God.
