Brenda Speaks

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In chapter 3 Job speaks. I can visualize Job having been a man filled with knowledge.  After thinking over all that has happened to him and knowing some matters of how life is formed in detail, Job talks.

Job stayed totally focused on one subject.  He hated the day he was born.  He speaks of conception to the day of his birth in a way he wanted the day to have never happened.  Job was hurting.  Although Job was down and his body was filled with pain, his conversation was channeled and streamlined centered.  Job's pain revealed what he resorted to when he had no pain. Job understood life.  He understood birth so much so, that he could tell the story in a way that he left no gaps in the process of the beginning of life.  God allows us to see why Job was such a perfect man in how he spent his time.  I can only imagine what it was like to be in Job's position this day.  In my limited moments of the discomfort in life, I have responded in tears, unbelief and pity.  I imagine Job once filled his mind with resources of good books.  So when he fell as low as he is in this chapter, you can hear what Job's mind has been associated with.  In summary, we must be careful in where we take our minds when we are  in control of our lives without pain.  If we do not, pain will drive out the path we've traveled and we will expose through our words and conversations.  When we live and make good choices, we can assure ourselves, we will remain stable when we are under pressure.

 What has been revealed to me is Job is a very organized man. In Job's pain he reveals his heart.  He does not count God foolishly by saying words about God, he speaks what he imagine life if he had never existed.  Because Job lived such a productive life, he did not  see or understand what brought him to the place he is in today; a life of misery and pain.  Had he sinned he could have reasoned and said this is happening to me because I.............There was nothing that made sense, so he blames all on if he did not exist.

3 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

2 And Job spake, and said,

3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;

15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

Every thing about us ought to reflect God

From the day we are born

To the day we die

Everything about us ought to reflect God

From the books that we read

And the things that we watch

Everything about us ought to reflect God

When times get hard 

And the pressure of life is viewed

Everything about us ought to reflect God

When you have accomplished

All the world’s good

Everything about us ought to reflect God

Under pressure

In decision

Harassed

On the spot

Worried 

Anxious 

Hassled

Strained

Under duress