Job. The appearance and speech of Elihu often puzzle me. Today, as I pondered his words, I was impressed by two facets of his argument. First, Elihu made it clear the God IS God. His ways are past finding out. Job, in his suffering, had stooped to a human attempt to judge God. "God is too good to be unkind. He is too wise to be confused. If I cannot trace His hand, I can always trust His heart." C. H. Spurgeon Job had ceased trusting and started judging. (Don't blame him; he worshiped God, but didn't know the indwelling Holy Spirit. He hadn't seen God manifest in a human body.)
The second facet of Elihu's argument was an indictment of Job for his sin. The three accusers tried to say that Job must have some hidden sin. He had failed to care for the poor, or been immoral, or had failed to pay his workers. Elihu cuts to the heart by exposing Job's real sin of arrogantly putting God on trial and finding Him guilty. You and I may think this a small sin compared to murder or adultery. However, such arrogance is at the root of all sin. In fact it was just such arrogance that rotted the heart of Lucifer and caused him to rebel against God.
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