Job
21 – 22
Verse 21:7 is a question all must ask today:
Why do the wicked
live
on an ever-upward path to long life and riches?
This is a fallacy that riches and long
lives are the means to success. As the Beatles say, “Money can’t buy you love.”
Or for that matter it can’t buy happiness. Our earthly mindset is the hot car,
big house and fancy toys are the measure of a successful life, where God shows
that most are not so successful financially and often die young. The key to
significance is what matters after you die? The car or the souls saved?
Focus on God, if money comes thank Him! In
today’s society we see the “banksters” destroying our economy while living
large at our expense. The idea they would fraudulently make loans, package them
with a false rating, insure them and get rich while at the same time evicting
the person who bought the home and taking that asset to boot, is awful. Then to
do this without acknowledging God, or if they do it’s not the God of Israel. We
must realize money is a tool for God’s work and not something we just have fun
with. Just because some wicked make it hand over fist does not mean God condones
their actions.
Verse 21:26 goes back to my initial
comment:
But they lie down
together in the same dust,
covered by the same blanket of worms.
We all end up in the ground! The only ones
I know that are remembered are the ones who made a significant impact on
society. The ones who got rich and then committed suicide because of their
fraud are forgotten the next day (note the 12 bankers who committed suicide in
recent weeks, name one). Significance comes from what is left behind, a legacy of
kindness and service or greed and debauchery. The kind will honor your death;
the greedy will just look for what you left them. Look for what matters on the
last days, not what makes you happy today.
Verse 22:3 has Eliphaz continuing to ignore
what Job is saying:
Is the Highest One
made happy if you are righteous?
Does He profit from your perfect ways?
After some time I am even upset at Job’s friends. They
are limited in their scope and looking at the world. They believe their pious
remarks are true and cannot see past the reality. Don’t do this no matter how
much you know about God and the Bible, you will never know enough!!