God declared of Job four things: he was “perfect, and upright, one that feared [reverenced] God, and eschewed [rejected] evil” (1:1, KJV). If He were to declare that of us, we would be happy, wouldn’t we?
Or would we?
It would mean that like Job we would be the special objects of Satan’s attacks in these closing days of the great controversy that has raged for 6000+ years.
But don’t conclude that you need to get on Satan’s side so as to avoid trial: that would mean rebellion against the Lord Jesus Christ. As the Lord sustained and protected Job, so He will care for you and me. Job was indeed a very great man as to natural ability and mental strength and forcefulness of personality; you may or may not be likewise (I am not). But each of us will be privileged to honor Christ in the sphere of “sober thinking” that is our individual gift of the Holy Spirit ( Rom. 12:3). That is enough for anyone!
Job’s character was not self-righteousness; it had to be only by the faith of Jesus, for no one is born righteous. Therefore Job at the beginning of biblical revelation is a fitting representative of those who at the end of biblical revelation “follow the Lamb wherever He goes” and are “without fault before the throne of God” (Rev. 14:4, 5). The only way any one can follow Him in that way will be by the path of justification by faith.
Don’t fall into the trap of longing for a high place of honor in the kingdom of God as the “mother of Zebedee’s children” asked for them (Matt. 20:20). Ask only that wherever the Lord in His wisdom and mercy has placed you, you may honor Christ and not bring shame upon Him.
In the midst of the wildest confusion and turmoil the world has ever known that will accompany the last days, God’s true people will be peaceful happy (“blessed,” is the word), for these words will be true of them: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled” (Matt. 5:6; cf. vs. 9). If your heart hungers for a better understanding of the gospel, for a clearer view of what the cross of Christ means, you have a heaven on earth in which to go to heaven.
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