The Heart of The Matter Job: Why must I suffer another day?
V3:23-26
· The “FOR” in V25 is the reason for sighing and roaring of V24 the
· The “FOR” in V24 led to the “WHY” in V23
3:23a Light of day: the morning and night seem the same to Job. Why forced to face another day of suffering?
3:23b Whose way is hid: Is Job wondering want will happen next?
· The blessed life he was accustomed to was now gone. future was considered as darkness. (10:20-22; 19:8) Way hid in darkness One can not see in darkness
3:23c Hedged in by God not hedged about as in 1:10.
· Hedged about in 1:10 God’s protection
· Hedged in by God: Job felt God kept him locked in a time of suffering (Job 19:8)
· Hosea 2:6 ¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
3:24-25 the FORs lead to the WHY?
· V25 Because: the trouble that he had always feared had come upon him and (V24) his day starts (before he eats) with deep a sigh of anguish and cries of grief.
· V23 So why am I force to see the light of another day
V25 Upon him: boils came upon him physically. Physical suffering will often make it harder to stand for right (eschew evil)
· Unto Him:? [Job 30:1-16 (9-10)] Job’s friends have heaped false accusations of some great sin upon him and they now abhor him. (30:15-17) His soul melted under the pressure of his “friends”. Spiritually weakened.
V26 Why would trouble come?
· Not in safety: Job knew trouble could come at any time.
· Had no rest: always carefully vigilant in his life to eschew evil. Always looking out for the wellbeing of his family and others. (1:5, 4:3-4)
· Not quiet: openly praised the LORD. Job wanted everyone to know of his LORD.
Job felt, like Paul in 2Tim 4:7, had fought the good fight, stayed on course kept his faith in the LORD
Ø Yet this did not keep trouble away
· The trouble of V26: Surely the loss of his children, loss of his substance, loss of his health. But,
· 30:15-16 Job’s fear went beyond the loss of the physical, he was now in agony spiritually. Why?
Jer 15:10; 20:14-18 Jeremiah the prophet was given a message to take to Israel that they hated and wanted to punish and kill Jeremiah. Jeremiah was faithful and spoke the words of the LORD.
Jeremiah wondered why he would suffer for obeying the LORD.
The conflict between emotions and the heart:
· What Job knew in his heart
Ø In Job 16:11-12 he knew God allowed “the wicked” to come against him.
Ø The wicked was a “he”
Ø Job knew God was not the one who killed his children, God was not the one who took away his substance, God was not the one who brought the boils upon his body; it was “he”, controlled the wicked who came upon him..
· By Job 19:5-9 Job blamed God for attacking him
1:12; 2:6 God put all that Job had into Satan’s hand and God put Job’s health into Satan’s hand to trouble Job.
Consider this: Did Job begin to wonder if his fearing God and eschewing evil was in vain?
· 1:21; 2:10b Job stated: What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin
· (10:2, 19:10) Job began to feel he was at odds with God and his hope in God was gone.
· Remember the conflict between emotions and the heart.
· Could that which he was afraid of been that there really was to hope in serving God?
**Suffering a little while and the expected end.
1Peter 5:10-11 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
Job got a glimpse that that. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
1John 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
Jere 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.