Seize the Moment – Day 1039
Speak, for your Servant is Listening!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, January 20.
Have you ever wished for a word from God to help you understand your life and circumstances better? If only God would speak to me about this, then I would know what I was supposed to do about it. The third friend of Job, Zophar the Naamathite, answered Job’s lament with a scathing rebuke, which also contained a request of God, stating in Job 11:5-9:
But would that God might speak, and open His lips against you, and show you the secrets of wisdom! … Can you discover the depths of God? Can you discover the limits of the Almighty? They are high as the heavens, what can you do? Deeper than Sheol, what can you know? Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.
It was impossible for Job to know the breadth and length and height and depth of the secrets of God’s wisdom. These “secrets” would require a special revelation from God. Little did Zophar know that he was foreshadowing the dramatic climax of the book of Job, when God communicated directly to Job in chapters 38-41.
More importantly, all such requests have been fulfilled in God sending His Son Jesus Christ – “For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him” (Colossians 1:18). Knowing Jesus “[results] in a true knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Colossians 2:2b-3). God has revealed to us “the breadth and length and height and depth” of His love for us through His Son Jesus Christ (Ephesians 3:18b-19). God wants to speak to you today through the special revelation of His Son, and He’s calling you by name to hear what He has to say to you.
Seize the moment and pray these words, “Speak, for Your servant is listening” (1 Samuel 3:10). Are you paying attention?
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