When opening lines
of a book your interest spark,
To read some more,
you’ll surely be stimulated.
When opening lines are
so breathtakingly stark,
Your imagination
will be captivated!
The Book of Job is like the first chapter,
essentially,
Of God’s Bible
message in 66 chapters. 1
It distills
His composite message, quintessentially,
With opening lines,
imaginations captured!
In The Book of Job,
the spirit of pride is arrayed,
Manifesting itself
in worthless indoctrinating. 2
The pride of Job, his
wife, friends and satan …all displayed,
About God and His
ways, carnally pontificating.
Enough!
Into this babble, God
did forcefully interrupt,
To clear the decks
and set faulty thinking aright.
Over time, such would certainly
His image corrupt.
Thus He spoke, and put
Godly ignorance to flight!
In The Book of Job, look
until you can see,
Wisdom that so many
choose to disdain,
Echoed in ALL
Bible Truths, assuredly!
If you’re in Christ,
you’ll see this familiar refrain:
~ The imperfect righteous, tested by God,
~ The imperfect righteous, tested by God,
~ Tempted by satan,
delivered by faith, redeemed.
~ The imperfect unrighteous,
by pride flawed,
~ Tempted by satan,
felled by fear, cursed, God-blasphemed!
Having perfectly laid this cornerstone,
In Job’s epic story, so
horrendously,
On this, God laid His
‘Old’ and ‘New’ keystones, 3
To thus complete His Word
to humanity.
With a closer look,
you’ll surely not miss,
In its opening lines,
expressed so vividly,
This Pearl of Wisdom that many dismiss:
Life’s a façade, cloaking a world we
cannot see.
Take a moment to
imagine, if you will dare,
What’s not
revealed, but may likely have happened,
Between Job 1:12 and his
ensuing despair. 4
Some things unseen
occurred that left Job’s life …ruined.
Now skip if you will
to Job 42:10,
What happened when
Job got himself off his mind?
What lesson do you glean for your life’s
tailspins?
To cloaked truths
and persons, please don’t remain blind. 5
To the goals,
objectives, the strategies and tactics,
Of resourceful forces
unseen to our natural eyes,
In Job, some are uncloaked,
without detailed specifics,
The rest God reserved
for His other books, hints to the wise! 3
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1 66 books in The Bible, each the equivalent
of a ‘chapter’ in a composite ‘book’ written by God’s Spirit through several men
2 Teaching a
person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically
3 The rest of the Old and the New
Testaments
4 Try to perceive what may have
happened between Job 1:12-13.
5 Blind to spiritual personalities
