Electrical circuit experiment for the win tonight! The girls and I had fun completing the circuit by connecting the different wires and running a fan or a light. We had to be careful to keep a disconnect from stopping the whole thing from working.
As I read through the Bible book of Job and hear the wrong responses of Job’s friends, it seems clear that there was a disconnect.
Job 25:4-6 says, “How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? 5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; Yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, that is a worm? And the son of man, which is a worm?”
Talk about encouragement!😳 Kinda sounds like some Christians I’ve heard trying to witness. It’s important to share the truth, even boldly, but it sure helps to apply that truth to ourselves by admitting that we’re sinners too. And it definitely helps to share the solution, not just the problem.
Job had already said pretty much the same thing in Job 9:1-3 (“Then Job answered and said, 2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.”) Job knew he wasn’t perfect. But Job also knew “my redeemer liveth,”
and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: (Job 19:25).
Let’s be careful to never point out people’s sin without also pointing out the Savior.
Our need is great, but God’s love for us is even greater.
The problem of our sin is big, but God’s solution is bigger.