Righteous in his own eyes (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Maybe this is the best summary the sin that Job carried righteous in his own eyes - by his works ...
Maybe this is the best summary the sin that Job carried righteous in his own eyes - by his works ...
When we come petitions, prayers to God not understanding asking why Humbly coming because we are of clay the stuff ...
Calling himself righteous a little too confident that he was blessed by his walk not by the grace of God ...
Not that he tried to live right claiming his righteousness not letting others be the judge confidently assessing himself In ...
His story so familiar in trying to live in piety when we fall into the trap of judging ourselves Forgetting ...
Thinking about the words of his friends arguing with Job about God telling him to be humble not to come ...
Through the eyes of a believer someone righteous before God and yet still struggling to understand pain in the world ...
Maybe not the scripture the layers of God but understanding his struggles with trial on this earth Sometimes so daunting ...
The story of so many who try to be faithful yet staring at calamity capricious and cruel in reading Job ...
Even when we are distant questioning the nature of our creator unable to fathom the world the suffering of this ...
Not in capriciousness the randomness of fate but when why has no answer how we all can truly relate Wondering ...
Toiling with Job walking on the earth searching for the answer to why yet nothing there sufficient in my mortal ...
Little comfort in the scriptures except in the abstract the real-world issues staring us in the face Trial in the ...
If we slow our reading and treasure all the words learning from a righteous man who stumbled before God Taking ...
His grace alone sufficient our only hope in him otherwise the struggles more than we can handle walking here on ...
Hopefully not going as far as he did in the later chapters not pushing the creator so that He would ...
In the chapters growing wondering when it would happen when his comeuppance his response would come Over and over questioning ...
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