July 14, 2025, Job 27:1-23

July 14, 2025, Job 27:1-23

Job Continues: I Will Maintain My Integrity

27 And Job again took up his discourse, and said:

² “As God lives, who has taken away my right,
    and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
³ as long as my breath is in me,
    and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
⁴ my lips will not speak falsehood,
    and my tongue will not utter deceit.
⁵ Far be it from me to say that you are right;
    till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
⁶ I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go;
    my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

⁷ “Let my enemy be as the wicked,
    and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
⁸ For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off,
    when God takes away his life?
⁹ Will God hear his cry
    when distress comes upon him?
¹⁰ Will he take delight in the Almighty?
    Will he call upon God at all times?
¹¹ I will teach you concerning the hand of God;
    what is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
¹² Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves;
    why then have you become altogether vain?

¹³ “This is the portion of a wicked man with God,
    and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:
¹⁴ If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword,
    and his descendants have not enough bread.
¹⁵ Those who survive him the pestilence buries,
    and his widows do not weep.
¹⁶ Though he heap up silver like dust,
    and pile up clothing like clay,
¹⁷ he may pile it up, but the righteous will wear it,
    and the innocent will divide the silver.
¹⁸ He builds his house like a moth's,
    like a booth that a watchman makes.
¹⁹ He goes to bed rich, but will do so no more;
    he opens his eyes, and his wealth is gone.
²⁰ Terrors overtake him like a flood;
    in the night a whirlwind carries him off.
²¹ The east wind lifts him up and he is gone;
    it sweeps him out of his place.
²² It hurls at him without pity;
    he flees from its power in headlong flight.
²³ It claps its hands at him
    and hisses at him from its place.

Wow, Job is really telling truth!  Everything we have is from God.  The fact we have a home, children, clothing, is because God provided it.  It can be taken away just as quickly as it arrived.  Even quicker.

I know we as people think we “worked” for the money that paid for it, but let’s look at truth…Who gave you the abilities you have?  Those abilities that allowed you to earn an education, or knowledge to do the work you do that makes that money and that buys that home, car and clothes?  When we see some gift we have that enables us to earn money, or attain celebrity status, or gain a powerful position….it was a gift God gave you.  I can’t tell you how many people I have heard tout how smart they are.  I admit…they are smart people.  Not humble, but definitely smart.  Of course they aren’t as smart as they thing they are, but whatever intelligent they have, was given to them by their Creator.  They didn’t earn the fact they are intelligent.  Now I’m not saying they didn’t work in school and use that intelligence to get good grades and a certain diploma and then go use that intelligence to make money, but that intelligence was God given. 

 

How seldom we thank Him for some of the basic things that were actually gifts from Him.  Thank Him today for the gifts He has given you.

Lori Morgan