Walk in God’s Friendship!

Job 29

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Wednesday, February 15.

Are you walking in God’s friendship? Job resumed his speech by looking back at his life before the many losses and grave suffering he had endured. He summarized how his friendship with God had brought blessing to his life in Job 29:2-5a:

Oh that I were as in months gone by, as in the days when God watched over me; when His lamp shone over my head, and by His light I walked through darkness; as I was in the prime of my days, when the friendship of God was over my tent; when the Almighty was yet with me.

Then, for the remainder of Job 29, Job reflected upon all the good he had done during his life. God’s favor had truly rested upon Job, as we previously learned from Job 1:8, when God said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil.”

Job was blessed to be a blessing! No doubt about that but let us realize the order of that statement is important. First comes the blessing of God, His friendship through grace, then comes the lifestyle of blessing, the works that flow from grace (Ephesians 2:8-10)! Can God be your friend while you are still a sinner? Let’s see what we can learn from Jesus’ ministry – the Pharisees called Jesus a “friend of sinners” in Matthew 11:19 because Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost (Luke 19:10). In Matthew 9:13, Jesus went as far as to say, “I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

God bless you!

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