Job 10 ~ Cheer before we go †

 

Van Gogh

Job 10

“I loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my complaint;
    I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me;
    let me know why you contend against me.

3 Does it seem good to you to oppress,
    to despise the work of your hands
    and favor the designs of the wicked?

4 Have you eyes of flesh?
    Do you see as man sees?

5 Are your days as the days of man,
    or your years as a man's years,
6 that you seek out my iniquity
    and search for my sin,
7 although you know that I am not guilty,
    and there is none to deliver out of your hand?

8 Your hands fashioned and made me,
    and now you have destroyed me altogether.

9 Remember that you have made me like clay;
    and will you return me to the dust?
10 Did you not pour me out like milk
    and curdle me like cheese?

11 You clothed me with skin and flesh,
    and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 You have granted me life and steadfast love,
    and your care has preserved my spirit.
13 Yet these things you hid in your heart;
    I know that this was your purpose.

14 If I sin, you watch me
    and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
15 If I am guilty, woe to me!
    If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
    and look on my affliction.
16 And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion
    and again work wonders against me.

17 You renew your witnesses against me
    and increase your vexation toward me;
    you bring fresh troops against me.

18 “Why did you bring me out from the womb?
    Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
19 and were as though I had not been,
    carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Are not my days few?

    Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer
21 before I go—and I shall not return—
    to the land of darkness and deep shadow,
22 the land of gloom like thick darkness,
    like deep shadow without any order,
    where light is as thick darkness.”

Job lived about the same time as Jacob, the man God renamed Israel.  

Circa 2000 B.C.  

No one could say Jacob lived an easy life.  And we probably see some of the famine in Israel, in "The Book of Job", that we read about Jacob and his family experiencing.  Jacob also lost a child, Joseph.   Jacob just didn't protest as much about his innocence, yet Jacob didn't have an overwhelmingly Exodus style plan towards him. For the good of Job and the millenniums, multiple and unfathomable millions of us reading living Scripture. 

Moses had an Exodus style plan in his life. 

And he and his wife had such a fight, God recorded He intervened. That was quite the fight.  Jacob didn't feel as married, which is odd considering the number of wives he had and fathered. The purpose of the details God gives allows us to see into their lives. 

The Scriptures live. Live. 

We all know Job Chapter 10 is for All the people who despair and feel God has abandoned. Some days, we all feel cast down. Something lived and felt very deeply.

Tyranny is a subject read in the news each day. 

Especially in the worldwide news. 

The Book of Habakkuk is parallel to the well known book of Jeremiah. The Chaldean Neo-Babylonian Empire had defeated Nineveh. Nineveh had been in love with God; Jonah had brought them.  Nineveh became the Chaldean Neo-Babylonian. Nebuchadnezzar II's beloved wife, Amytis, was Chaldean, uniting the new Empire. She was the inspiration for the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.  And Nebudnezzar, like his forefathers, loved the Scriptures and read the Hebrew God. Nebuchadnezzar believed Isaiah had written of Nebuchadnezzar in Isaiah 10.

Habakkuk 

wrote of the downfall of the culture 

as a people who were a law unto themselves ran the nation into death, 

Verses 1:7. 

In fact, Habakkuk wrote about the path they were on to be taken over. And Habakkuk was correct.  

There was nothing to do but live the Life God had given them. 

We will all walk the path God gives us. Today, people have dementia and Alzheimer's, and much of witnessing people in the Memory Loss Wards has extreme anger in this.  I will never forget having been the Guardian of my cousin Maxine, who had 23 strokes, seeing the antipsychotic meds popped in mouths like M&Ms, then seeing people, patients, list sideways. (We had to rescue Maxine from antipsychotic meds unneeded when Maxine began to lean sideways. Maxine was not in need, did not require that type of medicine. Maxine had been given a choice of life at home with home care; instead, Maxine opted for Memory Loss instead of invasion.)

Then, in the youth group, we had the darkness recede,

one of the youth said her grandmother had lived with them through Alzheimer's. Her grandmother always wanted to be of service. And had folded clothes until the very last week of her life. They had purchased a huge amount of towels to have clothes to wash constantly. And had gone through 2 sets of washers and dryers to have their grandmother with them.

Their grandmother had put away anger in her life. Had found reason to love and live. Living what Habukkuk found. 

Habukkuk 3

I heard and my heart pounded,

    my lips quivered at the sound;

decay crept into my bones,

    and my legs trembled.

Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity

    to come on the nation invading us.

17 Though the fig tree does not bud

    and 

there are no grapes on the vines,

though the olive crop fails

    and 

the fields produce no food,

though there are no sheep in the pen

    and 

no cattle in the stalls,

 yet 

I will rejoice in the Lord,

    I will be joyful 

in God 

my Savior

The adventure of finding our gratitude. Daily. 

In the older days, people called the forgetfulness of old age Senility. And sometimes being called Mad.  

Edward and I met Dr. Frank Adams, Dr. Adams was the Chief Medical Officer for MD Anderson Neurology and Neurosurgery.  

Dr. Frank Adams says the brain is kept healthy by enjoying word puzzles and games. Only taking 7 days of antidepressants a year. Only 7 days to avoid excessive brain shrinkage. Avoiding Benadryl.  Take Omega-3, fish oil, daily. And avoiding paths of anger and darkness.  We do that by overcoming the brain's power to run us and our power to make new pathways.  We will all have to do this as we age. Hormone loss leads to anger. We can become a perpetual gripe.  

New information is, unless you have had a traumatic brain injury, we should all take the smallest smear of over-the-counter Lithium. Not the entire capsule, a smear on your finger twice a week. The counties with naturally occurring Lithium in the water live life much more calmly, happily, and without violence. 

Now Alzheimer's with antipsychotics. 

It's an easy age to have hyperparasitism, to look at life as not having what the dream was. As we age, we either have a life worth living o r not. One grandmother felt all she had was not the light her childhood had been, and drank. The other grandmother was said to be not blessed and lived a life of gratitude. Her life was very, very blessed. Gratitude was pervasive in her life.  One of her descendants wouldn't take any of her things from her house, because she wasn't blessed. The woman sang. And she couldn't sing! From the joy in her heart.

3 Different women in our family had Alzheimer's or dementia. 

One was wealthy, one was hard working and envious. One went odd into sex. They were angry. The world had spoken unkindly to them. To be in community, saw these women have social attacks like a flock of pterodactyls.  Over jewelry, right or wrong. Weight. Effective or Ineffective as people. Family habits. Working. Not working. If they had too few with them or too many.  It was as if you could cry out, "Incoming!" Hyperparasitism.  The reaction was an anger.  Who should have done more? Why weren't the backups more perfect? What should have BEEN! Who owed them MORE! Decades of who wasn't kind. Or ... decades of I run with them and don't care for them. This is: The Age. Like Jimmy Kimmel reading what is written publicly about known people and the horror of what people will say. Hyperparasitism. Why? Because the critics have been attacked by their own dreams, expectations and pterodactyls that were, "Incoming!" They aren't having a life worth living. Attackers for this reason. Hyperparasitism.

The people who could have been angry:

Adam

Noah

Abraham

Sarah

Isaac

Jacob

Moses

Joshua

Caleb

Noah

Habakkuk

John

Mary

Thomas

and

Everyone in the Bible

Wait upon The Lord!

Job 42:10-17 

 The Lord Restores Job's Fortunes

10 And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. 

And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.

12 And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. 

And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters. 14 And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch. 15 And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. 

And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations. 17 And Job died, an old man, and full of days.

Faith is hope unseen.

 The people who waited: Abraham and Sarah, Noah,  Joshua and Caleb, David, Isaiah and 4 kings, those waiting for the Messiah, The Christ of God. John, the Beloved Disciple. Mary. Doubting Thomas.

Luke 18:1 

 And He told them a parable to the effect 

that 

they ought always to pray 

and 

not give up heart.

Jeremiah 32:17

‘Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.

Jeremiah 32:27 

“Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?

Genesis 18:14

Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.”

Matthew 19:26 

 

But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Luke 1:37

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Mark 10:27 

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”

Job 42:2 

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

Isaiah 41:10 

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Abba, Father,

God of Light

You are in all things

You are Light of the world

Light of mankind

Light of Heaven

In all Things, You Create

You have given us Jesus Christ

Holy is

the Highest Name

Above

all others

Your Kingdom come

Your Good Will be done

we pray for more

on earth

just as it is in Heaven.

Give us This Day

Our Daily Bread.

Jesus the Living Bread.

Forgive us our Trespasses

as

we forgive those

who Trespass 

Against us.

Lead us not into temptation

Deliver us from Evil. 

For Thine

is the

Kingdom

and 

the Power

and 

the Glory.

Giving Thanks!!!

For the new grandchild

sometime

in early June!

WORLDWIDE
PEACE

IN

Our

Amen in Jesus Christ 

John 21

Thank you, Jesus, our Lord Christ

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Bless the Lord Jesus

Thank You, Jesus

Acts 1:6-14 ~ He had said these things

 

The Shroud of Turin 

has profound

levels of radiation 

after being sequestered in

preservation

radiation free areas for thousands of years.

Let there be Light

and

The Sunrise shall visit us from upon high.

Acts 1:6-14

6 So when they had come together, they asked Him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” 

7 He said to them, 

“It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His Own Authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” 

And when He had said these things, 

as they were looking on, 

He was lifted up, 

and a cloud took Him

 out of their sight. 

10 And while they were gazing into Heaven as He went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, 11 and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into Heaven? This Jesus, Who was taken up from you into Heaven, will come in the same way as you saw Him go into Heaven.”

12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away. 

And when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James. 

All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, 

together with the women and 

Mary the Mother of Jesus, 

and His Brothers

People and newspapers have been speculating 

On the room known as The Upper Room since the 1970s and before. It's an ancient building and known to the Israeli Professors of Archaeology.  Is this the one?  One day, we will know.

2 Timothy 2:1-3

You therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that 

is in Christ Jesus.

And the things that you have heard me say among many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men

One day, we will know. How will we do until we know? 

Micah 6:8

He has told you, O man, what is good;

    and 

what does the Lord require of you

but to do justice, 

and 

to love kindness,

    and 

to walk humbly with your God?

Litmus tests. The 1970s it was the foolishness of believing in a Virgin Birth.

As told to Hezekiah's King Father Ahaz. With the exact representation of the trade profit in Israel, the haircuts of the Roman Empire, and the woes and glories of the agriculture of the time. Isaiah 7

Proverbs 21:3

To do justice and judgment 

is 

more acceptable to the LORD 

than sacrifice.

In the 1990s, one of the largest denominations in the USA fell from 

17 million parishioners to 500,000 when that denomination was saying:

The Bible would be reinvented by the current culture 

and we should rip out all of St. Paul, 

because, obviously, St. Paul was without the Holy Spirit.  

Then made the leaping change, 

not allowing any divorce among Bishops 

to running with a newly made Bishop, divorced, 

but with a nod to agenda. 

Genesis 18:19

For I know him, that he will command his children and his household

 after him, 

and they shall keep the way of the LORD, 

to do justice and judgment; 

that the LORD 

may bring upon Abraham 

that which He hath spoken of him.

This is the largest time period of the expansion of believing Churches. 

The Pew Report shows many generational Church attendance shifted.

There are times, in all lives, we must determine our faith, words and actions.

Deuteronomy 10:12,13

And now, Israel, 

what doth the LORD thy God 

require of thee, 

but to fear the LORD thy God, 

to walk in all His Ways,

 and 

to Love Him, 

and 

to serve the LORD thy God 

with all thy heart 

and 

with all thy soul

How will we do this when we have such pressing concerns,

How will we do this when we are the flowers of the field?

Jesus knew about our lives and He gave a reason and direction:

John 6:29

Jesus answered them, 

“This is the work of God given to mankind,

that you believe 

in Him 

Whom He has sent.”

The Disciples, Adam, Gideon, Jeremiah, Peter, Mary, Zechariah

all had questions and concerns.

Hebrews 11:6

And without faith it is impossible to please Him, 

for whoever would draw near to God 

must believe

 that He exists 

and 

that He rewards 

those who seek Him.

1 Corinthians 2:5

So that your faith 

might not rest

 in 

the wisdom of men 

but 

in the power of God.

Hebrews 11:1 

Now 

faith

 is the assurance 

of things hoped for, 

the conviction of things 

not seen.

What would be a sign of faith?

Luke 6:36 

Be merciful, 

even as your Father is merciful.

James 2:13

For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. 

Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Matthew 5:7

Blessed are the merciful, 

for they shall receive 

mercy.

Matthew 9:13 

Go and learn 

what this means: 

“I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.

For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God

and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! 

According to His 

Great Mercy, 

He has caused us

 to be born again 

to a living hope 

through the resurrection of Jesus Christ 

from the dead.

Believe.

80% of the USA does pray.  And this causes scoffing. 

This isn't exactly merciful. And of the 80% praying,  2/3rds say they have received a miraculous, answer only from The Lord and their prayer. And the believing people say they know God hears them and loves them.

Hebrews 4:16 

Let us then with confidence draw near to the Throne of Grace, 

that 

we may receive 

mercy 

and

 find grace to help in time of need.

Believe

God does the Impossible

Why?

Zephaniah 3:17

The Lord your God is in your midst,

    A Mighty One 

Who will Save

He will 

Rejoice over you with gladness

    He will 

quiet you by His Love

He will 

exult over you with loud singing.

If we are not open to the impossibility of God, we should miss the display of the Lord's Goodness, arriving quietly, like the sunrise. We benefit in our faith from being open to the Holy Spirit. The Lord God Almighty upholds the Universe with the Power of His Word.

Luke 1:76-79

Go before the Lord to prepare His Ways,

to give knowledge of salvation 

to His People

    in the forgiveness of their sins,

because 

of the tender mercy of our God

    Whereby the sunrise 

shall visit us 

from on high

To give light 

to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,

    to guide our feet 

into 

the way of peace.

This Jesus, 

Who was taken up from you into Heaven, 

will come in the same way 

as you saw Him

 go into Heaven

Holy Father, 

keep them 

in Your Name, 

which You have given Me, 

that 

they may be One, 

even as We are One.

John 21

Thank you, Jesus our Lord Christ

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Bless the Lord Jesus

Thank You, Jesus