Guilty and in Need

Job 9-10

Job is not speechless, he has many words... yet he doesn't have the "right" words. In trying to state his case against the Almighty he realizes that although he is innocent, his own mouth would pronounce him guilty. Where do you begin in trying to defend yourself before a righteous God? Finally, Job comes to the conclusion that what he really needs is arbitration. In his distress, he cries out...

If only there were a mediator between us, someone who could bring us together. The mediator could make God stop beating me, and I would no longer live in terror of his punishment. Then I could speak to him without fear, but I cannot do that in my own strength.

Eventually, that is the place we all come to... if we come to our senses anyway. And then we realize that God in his infinite wisdom had already thought this all through before we were born... and agreed. He would provide the mediator too. A mediator who would not only come between us and the Almighty, but also give everything he had... put it all on the line... "who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross!"

He fulfills all my needs! He is exactly what I need. Thank you Jesus.