“I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;” Job 42:5 - His righteousness was well known among his contemporaries and even celebrated in Heaven’s courts. His friends spoke as he once did, until he suffered. Eloquent words and upright deeds did not guarantee a trouble free life. Job felt betrayed by God, according to Job’s terms of faith and devotion. Then, God put him in his place. Job realized that his religion was man made and his faith was in a god formed in his own image. He was not far from the truth but his eyes had to be opened to see God for who God is - “I am who I am.”
So many people grow up in a religion and with a Job-like righteousness. They are revered by contemporaries and celebrated for good deeds. They too have molded a god in keeping with their wants and needs. What will it take for them to be shaken from their man made foundation?
When Christ said, “It is finished” from the cross; when He breathed the Holy Spirit on His disciples, Christ was the whirlwind voice of God for all generations and all who seek Him. The Spirit says the same things to the want-to-be Christian that He said to Job. Will you repent? Will you, like Saul of Tarsus, have your religion transformed into relationship? Will you have your eyes opened? “I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;”
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