hid all the treasures
02Feb07
..So Job 28 ends with this:
Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
For all the build-up, that’s a fairly simple answer. But it’s not really an answer. It’s a treasure map.
…someone said, that of all the things Job had/lost/recovered…
a “GOD perspective” was the most valuable. the book of Job doesn’t seem
to be about “why bad things happen to good people” or how to “answer
the skeptics” or even “knowing your place in the eternal flux”…but more
(or only) about the reward of having Father’s mind in all things. Job didn’t
have the benefit of the conversation between Father & the adversary
before all this went down - and we don’t either (in a sense)… the only way
to emerge in obedience and (subsequent) glory in the outcome, is to
keep OUR conversations with HIM up-to-date and to have his heart in
all things…realising that His glory will be the end result of all events
and that when we & He are on the same page,
not much of this matters one jot.
to know, Know, KNOW Him is to love, Love, LOVE Him.
yes. & the treasure map.
job 28 talks about something you don’t get anywhere else in the book.
it sounds more like proverbs 8
lukas is speaking to it with the know to Know to KNOW.
it’s the Holy Ghost throwing open the door to knowing God as deep as he knows you…& basically saying there’s gold in them thar hills. because you can’t truly walk with God & not have his love rub off on you, his thoughts, his compassion, his wisdom >> the bling that fades not, neither perishes.