Devotion 454
“God Of The Present”
Reference: Job Chapter 18
What good does it do to know Him as God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and Elijah?
It serves no purpose to simply know Him as God of the past. It serves no purpose to simply know Him as the God of the future.
He is either God of the present or He is not God at all. He is the same God yesterday, today, and forever.
Those who know Him know Him as God of the present. Those who know about Him know about Him as God of the past or of the future.
Job’s accusers know about God.
Let’s read:
Job 18:1-5 “Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, [2] How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. [3] Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? [4] He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? [5] Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.”
God calls Job perfect. Job’s accusers called him wicked, for they knew not God. They knew about Him.
We know God when our word lines up with His Word. When we say about people what God says about them.
We continue our reading:
Job 18:6-19 “The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. [7] The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. [8] For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. [9] The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. [10] The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. [11] Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. [12] His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. [13] It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. [14] His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. [15] It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. [16] His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. [17] His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. [18] He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. [19] He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.”
Job is known around many kitchen tables wherever the Word of God is discussed while his accusers remain a proverb and a byword.
The wicked were his accusers. Accusing him for a God they only knew about.
We conclude our reading:
Job 18:20-21 “They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. [21] Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.”
The accuser claims to know God.
Every religion claims to know God.
God is not known by religion. God is known by His presence in our hearts in the Person of Jesus Christ. He is alive today, right now, next to us, and in us in the Person of the Holy Spirit.
Not just of the past or the future but of the now.
Let the Word bring you to the God of the present. BELIEVE and confess Christ the Word as we’ve revealed Him from the First Adam. He is the ever present God, in Christ!
Reference: Job Chapter 18
What good does it do to know Him as God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and Elijah?
It serves no purpose to simply know Him as God of the past. It serves no purpose to simply know Him as the God of the future.
He is either God of the present or He is not God at all. He is the same God yesterday, today, and forever.
Those who know Him know Him as God of the present. Those who know about Him know about Him as God of the past or of the future.
Job’s accusers know about God.
Let’s read:
Job 18:1-5 “Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, [2] How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. [3] Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? [4] He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? [5] Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.”
God calls Job perfect. Job’s accusers called him wicked, for they knew not God. They knew about Him.
We know God when our word lines up with His Word. When we say about people what God says about them.
We continue our reading:
Job 18:6-19 “The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. [7] The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. [8] For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. [9] The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. [10] The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. [11] Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. [12] His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. [13] It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. [14] His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. [15] It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. [16] His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. [17] His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. [18] He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. [19] He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.”
Job is known around many kitchen tables wherever the Word of God is discussed while his accusers remain a proverb and a byword.
The wicked were his accusers. Accusing him for a God they only knew about.
We conclude our reading:
Job 18:20-21 “They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. [21] Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.”
The accuser claims to know God.
Every religion claims to know God.
God is not known by religion. God is known by His presence in our hearts in the Person of Jesus Christ. He is alive today, right now, next to us, and in us in the Person of the Holy Spirit.
Not just of the past or the future but of the now.
Let the Word bring you to the God of the present. BELIEVE and confess Christ the Word as we’ve revealed Him from the First Adam. He is the ever present God, in Christ!
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