Job 28 gives us a great look at how Job saw himself. He is reflecting on the way things were – sort of his resume if you would of his life before the current struggles overtook him. “Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me”. Take a read of the way Job describes himself. He was truly a man who was living life large – and walking with God. Does your resume look at all like this? He begins by talking about his relationship with God:
– “his lamp shone upon my head
– by his light I walked through darkness
– the friendship of God was upon my tent
– the Almighty was yet with me”
Then the people in his patch:
– “my children were all around me
– my steps were washed with butter
– the rock poured out for me streams of oil
– young men saw me and withdrew
– the aged rose and stood
– the princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth
– the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth
– When the ear heard, it called me blessed
– when the eye saw, it approved
– Men listened to me and waited and kept silence for my counsel
– After I spoke they did not speak again
– They waited for me as for the rain
– they opened their mouths as for the spring rain”
And then the things he had done – how he lived
– “I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him
– I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy
– I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban
– I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame
– I was a father to the needy
– I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know
– I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made him drop his prey from his teeth
– I smiled on them when they had no confidence
– I chose their way and sat as chief
– I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners”
It reminds me of God’s truth about Jesus – He grew in wisdom and stature and favor with God and man. Job’s description of himself talks about those kinds of things – he was living with God, with those around him and doing great things for all as a leader, father, husband and servant. Job has quite a resume about life. What does your resume say about your walk with God? How you live with those in your patch? What you are doing to make a difference? Does it sound at all like Job’s?