RTW January 28

Receive Joy and Be Restored

“Why don’t people say to God, ‘I have sinned but I will sin no more?’ Or ‘I don’t know what evil I have done-tell me. If I have done wrong, I will stop at once?'”
Job 34:31-32

 

 

My Takeaways

Something Old

Oh, how I love this.

Job 33:26

When he prays to God, he will be accepted. And God will receive him with joy and restore him to good standing.

  • “Come now, let’s settle this,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, I will make them as white as wool.” Isaiah 1:18
  • “I—yes, I alone—will blot out your sins for my own sake and will never think of them again.” Isaiah 43:25
  • Now repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped away. Acts 3:19
  • If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (NIV) 1 John 1:9
  • This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! 2 Corinthians 5:17

Something New

Sometimes the young are wise and we should heed their words. Wear it well but don’t wear it again.

Something to do

 

 

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8 Comments

  1. – I may have wisdom to share with those older than me but I must always share it with proper respect and chose my timing and tone carefully.

    – Job 34:31-32 – I can’t hide my sin from God. Regularly go to Him and tell him I’ve sinned and ask for help to sin no more. Ask him to reveal my sin to me and be quick to confess and repent. Keep my account with God very short!

  2. ~On 1-26-19, I had asked the question in my Something New, “Is Job boasting and taking credit for his accomplishments?” Then today, the heading in Job 34 is “Elkhart Accuses Job of Arrogance”. It appears that I was thinking along the same lines as Elihu.
    ~In Job 34 Elihu speaks of the sovereignty of God. It is so important for me to remember that God is sovereign, especially when there are things going on in my life or the lives of others that I don’t understand.

  3. Today I appreciated the message of being able to listen to and appreciate the input of a younger person. That was a struggle for me in my church when I was younger. I became Children’s Choir Director when I was 15, and throughout my teen and early 20’s, I tried to start other groups in the church and be involved but it was tough. Most of the people in leadership positions in the church were in my grandparents’ generation, and just saw me as Ken’s (my grandpa) little granddaughter. As time went on, I started working full time, got married, and had a baby, so I am not actively trying to be in a leadership position right now (I volunteer in online ministries more now) but it was discouraging at the time.

    I also thought Elihu was the wisest of the group. He listened to everyone calmly before speaking. He said a few wise words, but what stuck out to me the most was: Why don’t people say to God, ‘I have dinner, but I will sin no more’? Or: ‘I don’t know what evil I have done- tell me. If I have done wrong, I will stop at once’? That is a lesson we all need: to be able to humble ourselves before God.

  4. I know what Wendy means about her daughter being more spiritually mature. I have 3 children and I feel like they have all surpassed me in their spitual maturity and I have learned so much from them through the years. I am so blessed that God gave me three children to guide me in my walk and to understand better His ways. God is good.

    Today in my reading I was introduced to Elihu, what a guy! He appears from no where. Elihu appears to understood the mind of God much more clearly than Job’s other friends. I think Elihu represents a foreshadowing of Jesus Christ. Job asked for a mediator and God answered by allowing Elihu to speak.
    Rather than repeating the idea that suffering is a punishment for sinful actions, Elihu wants Job to recognize his suffering as a kind-hearted discipline leading to reconciliation with God. Elihu is the mediator for Job as Jesus Christ is for me.

    Something to do: Never doubt that God cannot do wrong. Know that God would never pervert justice. Remember that it is God who makes me wise not the number of years I have lived.

  5. I remember from this study many years ago that one of my favorite lessons was “who is your El ihu?”

    1. Now that you mentioned that, I remember that also!! I have been with RTW for 10 years now, but this is my first comment for this year. Thank you for reminding me of that thought…Who is my Elihu?

      Mema Jeanne

  6. Studying Elihu, reminds me of the Karate Kid “the student has become the teacher”.
    Also young Timothy in scripture who was wise beyond his years.
    Researching history, we find Elihu was a distant relative of Job. Elihu’s message occupies the next five chapters, and he is allowed to give one of the major discourses of this book.

    What is profound, Elihu speaks not as the other men did from their experience, but he claims to speak from revelation. Elihu says, “It is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.” It is not the accumulation of the years of experience that makes people wise; it is what God has taught them through the years.

    Teaching may give you 25 years of experience, one year’s experience 25 times, we go through life repeating the same way of thinking over and over again, and never learn wisdom.

    So Elihu is right here, it is not the old that are wise, nor the mature in age that understands what is right; it is the spirit of the Almighty that teaches us wisdom.

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