Title: Job's Repentance and Blessing (Job 17:11)
Description Job's repentance and blessing (Job 17:11)
Only now is Job truly realizing God's will and confessing contritely. Where did Job fall? It is the heart that longs for 'management'. He misunderstood that he was responsible for all 'management'. Job knew where he had fallen. It was there that Job began to repent.
"You know that you are invincible, and that there is nothing impossible to accomplish in any 'management'. Who is the one who conceals the truth with ignorant words? I used to hear about you with my ears, but now I see you with my eyes. Therefore, I He grieves himself and repents in dust and ashes” (Job 42:2,5,6).
Job restored his first love.
"I see you with my eyes" is Job's confession of love. During that time, he did not see the 'Lord' in his eyes, but 'management'. Even if I went to the left or to the right, I couldn't see the Lord (Job 9:11, 23:8, 9), but now I can see the Lord with my eyes. Now Job is looking to the Lord with all his heart.
People who love money can only see money when they open their eyes. People only see what they love. Just as a shoe dealer sees the shoes of passersby and a tie dealer sees his tie first, Job, who loved business, could only see business when he opened his eyes. Those who love Jesus see only Jesus, whether awake, sleeping, living or dead.
“Now I see you with my eyes.”
Now, when he opened his eyes, the face of God was revealed, and he confessed his love to God with all his heart. "God, I love You with all my heart. You are my everything."
He was always open to God when he went to work, at his business site, and when he met people for business contracts. He now handles everything with God. His gaze and all his heart are always fixed on God. He often calls on God. "Dear God!"
He left behind a lot of painful scars, but the rest of his life was rooted in a 'love relationship with God' that nothing could shake. Job was rooted and grounded in Christ and love (Ephesians 3:17).
"Therefore, now you have been forced to be grieved for a little while because of various trials, but rather we rejoice. The trial of your faith is more precious than gold that perishes, even though it is tried by fire, that you may find praise and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. You have not seen Jesus, but you love him. Even though you do not see him now, you believe and rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy, for by the end of your faith, your souls are saved" (1 Peter 1:6-9).
God gave Job more blessings than the first, but now he has become a man of love, not a worker who is engrossed in his work. In close fellowship with God, his life was made meaningful, and God, who became his husband, came with great power and gave him 'control' and 'government' to handle everything.
What God wanted was not 'Job's work' but 'Job himself'. He wanted a deeper relationship of pure and clean first love. I hope that you too will recover the hot relationship of your first love and love only Jesus. Alpha and Omega, forever and ever! “The Lord was pleased with Job” (Job 42:9).
When Job, God's best lover, restored his first love, God restored his life again. Relations with his wife and relatives who had left him with contempt and ignorance were reestablished, and friends came to Job to receive prayers and kneel before God-given authority. After living 140 years, he received all the rewards of the wounded years he lost. God has set his priorities in life, not as a thief who steals everything from him, but as his spiritual bridegroom who loves Job dearly.
"Job prayed for his friends, and the Lord restored Job's plight and gave him twice as much as he had before. So all his brothers and sisters, and all those they knew before, came and ate with him in his house. He mourned and comforted him for all the calamity that the LORD had brought upon him.” (Job 42:10-17)