diff --git a/Gloss/Job/Job 10.md b/Gloss/Job/Job 10.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..98d1746 --- /dev/null +++ b/Gloss/Job/Job 10.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +# Job 10 + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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 + +6) ...and He uses a human body to condescend so that we may know Him- not so He might belittle us. + +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. + diff --git a/Gloss/Job/Job 9.md b/Gloss/Job/Job 9.md index f4439a8..1e9198f 100644 --- a/Gloss/Job/Job 9.md +++ b/Gloss/Job/Job 9.md @@ -11,4 +11,45 @@ Job's response to Bildad. 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. \ No newline at end of file +13) "Rahab" means pride and is likely a reference to a sea monster: a symbol of chaos. + + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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.) + +25-29) Job's is feeling a crushing pressure to submit. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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... + +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. + +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.