Minister Like a Girl

Reading for Day 6

I finished most of this post, and would you believe the power went out and zapped it all away?

Here is the funny part – this section in Job reminded me of a very specific time in my own life with a person speaking into my life like Zophar did to Job.  I wrote quite a bit about it.  Now I realize that revelation was for me – not something I should share with my vast readership.  (HA!) It is freeing and healing to read Zophar’s accusations and to read how Job handled it.  Boy I wish I would have thought to have said this one, “As for you, you smear me with lies.  As physicians, you are worthless quacks. If only you could be silent! That’s the wisest thing you could do.” What a comeback!! – God just smacked me with that same message – being silent is the wisest thing I could do.

So….you don’t get to read the story.  That’s okay.  You have Job’s.  His is way better anyway.  I didn’t have any cool responses.  I was mostly just saddened, angry, and confused.  Not so much with God, but with my friend’s response to my life.

Zophar really takes the cake.  If you haven’t read the passage yet, go back and do it.  Try it in the New Living Translation.  Job is firm with his friends, and he is turning a corner in his suffering.  He is ready now to “take on” God so to speak.  He still believes in his own innocence, and is still yearning for his suffering to end – even in death.

This is good stuff.  Oh to have the strength and resolve of Job.