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Gloss/Job/Job 10.md

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+# Job 10
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+1-7) Job is growing more bitter- he is calling on God to prove His sovereignty.
+     It is important that he is re-framing his understanding of God based on God's omnipotence and omniscience- if there is suffering it cannot be outside of God's purview.
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+1) Disgust- not a unique sentiment and a necessary precursor to being able to voice complaints;
+   If we are happy and afraid to lose our stuff we don't tend to rock the boat.
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+3) It depends how we define "good".
+   If goodness is what makes me happy right now then, no, suffering is not good;
+   But if good is whatever brings as many people as possible to God, then I cannot determine what is good.
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+4-5) Point of fact: God does have human fles...even in the old testament (Abraham, Joshua, and Gideon witnessed it (among others.))
+     However, God is not limited by a human body
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+6) ...and He uses a human body to condescend so that we may know Him- not so He might belittle us.
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+7) "You know that I am not wicked" - again we require a definition: what is wickedness?
+   Wickedness cannot be any evil thing done ever, but whether or not that wickedness is prosecutable.
+   Luckily, there is a scenario where our evil acts are sealed and not charged against us.
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Gloss/Job/Job 9.md

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 11) True that we don't know God's face: we only know Him by His capability.
 
 
-13) Rahab means pride and is likely a reference to a sea monster: a symbol of chaos.
+13) "Rahab" means pride and is likely a reference to a sea monster: a symbol of chaos.
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+14-20) "I can only beg my Judge for mercy."
+       This epitomizes many people's view of God- it allows them to codify and understand justice, and deny part [or all] of God that doesn't meet their expectations.
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+17) Job's suffering is not without cause, its results are to be seen in his life and time immemorial.
+    But he does not see it at this time and that is the lesson God has for him.
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+19-20) This is the really scary part of God, even if we could understand all the laws of nature and why God does what He does...He could change it in a blink without reason.
+       However, He graciously gives us a universe of immutable order and reason so that we can know and experience Him.
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+21-24) Job's perceives that God doesn't care and, thus, becomes similarly uncaring, "if God doesn't care about my life, why should I?"
+       This paradigm, that God is aloof and therefore doesn't matter, is not just common but a driving force in the world.
+       It is excerbated by the fact that, even though God pursues us He will leave us be if we really want Him to (that is, in fact, what hell is all about.)
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+25-29) Job's is feeling a crushing pressure to submit.
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+26) "boats made of papyrus" is a reference to some swift naval vessel- this is amidst phrases about a fast runner and a fast flier.
+    This eschews notions of ancient man's idiocy- they understood things like buoyancy and hydrodynamics- they just didn't have the advaned language of maths to describe it fully.
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+27-28) There is something to be said for __washing up__ to help overcome grief and trial; Jesus encouraged us [Matt 6] to wash ourselves and put on lotion while fasting so as not to appear sickly.
+       However, fixing the facade does not fix the matter- though it can help facilitate the healing process.
+       Deeper still, Job understands that unless God intervenes his heart will not be healed.
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+29-31) This is Job's despair in a nutshell: that even if he could pull hisself from the pit there is nothing for it.
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+31) "Even my clothes despise me!"  what an apt metaphor for hopelessness, it so shapes our psyche that those closest to us dont' want to be.
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+32-35) Job longs for reconciliation with God.
+       He seems to have an instinctive understanding that God is the only one who can help him.
+       However, he incorrectly surmises that there can be no mediator between him and God.
+       Two human parties require a mediator because they are fallible, when one of the two is God, God can mediate.
+       Point of fact, this is at the heart of the gospel: we require mediation [reconciliation] with God and that mediator must be divine but also human...
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+34) How often is fear of God the driver at the heart of the zealot?
+    While many do not fear God, the zealot does.
+    We fall into ruts of tradition and ceremony because we do not perceive God anymore but know that we need Him.
+    We don't know what else to do.
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+35) This may be the most distressing part of suffering- the immense loneliness that comes from knowing God is there but not here.
+    Coupled with the persistent admonishments of his wife & friends this is the very dark.