I Had Heard - But Now I See

Job 42:5  My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.

            One of my most favorite scriptures assuring us of the promise—the Blessed Hope of the future resurrection—is found earlier in the book of Job.

Job 19:25-27  I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!

            Everything I have found related to this text seems to point out Job’s awareness of his deteriorated physical condition and that he would soon find himself in the grave. Yet Job held fast the promise of a future that included resurrection. He knew the end of all things included a Redeemer that would prevail and he expressed the confidence that he, himself, would see that Redeemer.

            In today’s text (Job 42:5) Job states now my eyes have seen you. Put together with its context we know Job is engaged in conversation with the LORD God Almighty, but nowhere in the passage is a physical presence made mention. Yet there is no contradiction between the two passages. The earlier passage is a promise yet to come. This passage is an acknowledgement of what Job has learned, discovered, and understood about the amazing LORD God Almighty.  It is almost as if Job is declaring his own understanding of who he himself is in contrast to who the LORD God Almighty is. He is making that personal connection to what he has always heard and what he now understands.

            The questions for us to ponder today might be:  Have we made the personal connection between what we have heard about God and what we know Him to be in our life? Have we allowed our eyes—the windows to our being—to see who God is in a personal way?

 

Gracious Heavenly Father,

            LORD God Almighty you are omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent—too wonderful for our mortal minds to comprehend. But you are also a personal God who loves and cares for us, and who time and again shows us undeserved mercy and grace. Forgive us where we fail you. Open our hearts to see you more clearly and understand you more fully.

            In the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, Amen.

 

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