The Great Defender

Today: Job 14-16



Throughout Job's personal crises, his "friends" accused him of sin he didn't commit. Job was innocent. He tried to clear his name, but his own protests didn't do it. I love how Job appealed to heaven--for Someone to serve as a great defender to clear his name before God. Take a look:

There must be Someone in heaven

who knows the truth about me,

in highest heaven,

some Attorney who can clear my name—

My Champion, my Friend,

while I'm weeping my eyes out before God.

I appeal to the One who represents mortals before God

as a neighbor stands up for a neighbor.

I think it's interesting that this verse appears in the Old Testament because to me, this sounds like an appeal to Jesus. Jesus is the One who makes it possible for us to even have a relationship with God. He is, in a way, our Great Defender. (This concept makes me picture Big Mike from "The Blind Side"--love it!).

But even if Job didn't grasp the concept of Jesus yet, I love how he had such faith in God's justice. He trusted that the truth would prevail.

Another thing I love? His personal interaction with God. In today's passage alone, he gets really mad at God (once he refers to Him as, "God--my enemy!"). I'm sure he yelled and cried and pleaded. But at the same time, Job also refers believes that somewhere in heaven, there's a Champion and a Friend standing on his side.

Tomorrow: Job 17-20