How Can a Man Be Just? [Job 25]

    1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
    2"Dominion and awe belong to Him
         Who establishes peace in His heights.
    3"Is there any number to His troops?
         And upon whom does His light not rise?
    4"How then can a man be just with God?
         Or how can he be clean who is born of woman?
    5"If even the moon has no brightness
         And the stars are not pure in His sight,
    6How much less man, that maggot,
         And the son of man, that worm!"

I think Bildad the Shuhite is finally giving up on Job.  His last soliloquy is short and it is clear that he hasn't changed his stance.  His best question is ""How then can a man be just with God?"  His understanding of God is that He is powerful, in control of all nature and that in His presence man is the lowliest of worms - a maggot.  How would you answer Bildad?

What Bildad missed is that even in his time God Almighty chose to dwell among men.  He started that way when He created man.  In Genesis 3:8-9 we see God personally walking with and talking to His children, Adam and Eve.  "They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. Then the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, 'Where are you?'" Even when they hid themselves from His presence because they had disobeyed, God sought them out.  Later in Exodus he asked Moses to build a tabernacle so "that I may dwell among them." Exodus 25:8-9.

We praise You God that even though Your majesty and power make You a God that is far away and exalted, You are also a God who chose to be close to Your people.  Thank You for providing Jesus as a sacrifice, once and for all, to sanctify us (set us apart as holy)  so that we can enjoy relationship with You, a holy God. (Hebrews 10:9-10). Jesus is the answer to Bildad's question, ""How then can a man be just with God?" and even then God provided a way for people to be close to Him by looking to His promise of Jesus.




Verna McCrillis, 1/29/2011
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