Thursday, February 5, 2015

Men at ease have contempt for misfortune, Why me?

Job 12:1-25
I have a mind as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know all these things?
A mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!
Men at ease have contempt for misfortune as the fate to those whose feet are slipping.
Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?
To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.
He silences the lips of trusted advisers and takes away the discernment of elders.
Job responds: Job is stung to sarcasm. His friends are not the only ones who can work things out. God is all-wise, all-powerful,
If he turns the norms of wisdom and justice upside-down, what can anyone do about it?
Why?
Compassion is need to everyone. Don't have contempt for misfortune.
There are some who say that we are not truly human until we have suffered. Of course, this is not true, but there are dimensions to our self-understanding and to our realization of what a relationship with God is about, that only emerge when we come face to face with ourselves, often in a situation of suffering or grief.
In the long dialogue section of the book Job is a man in anguish and confused. He is preoccupied with death - in one sense he longs for death as an escape, but then he realizes that if he dies he will not be able to continue to argue his case with God. Who will hear him then when he is in the darkness of Sheol? He longs for God to respond to him so that he can receive an answer to his question. "Why me?"
How?
Why me? No one can answer except God. Most people are sinned in this world, but Job is righteous and blameless and he suffered those misery. How about us?
Be humble and have compassion to those who are suffering misfortune.




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