Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“If you are pure and upright,
surely then he will rouse himself for you
and restore to you your rightful place.”
NL Daily Devotion for Monday, June 15, 2020
by Daniel D. Maurer, Clergy Stuff
Job’s friend Bildad then rebuked Job for rebuking Eliphaz. Once again, another of Job’s friends falls on the side of easy answers and genuinely repentant piety. Bildad was wrong, but to his defense he really didn’t see all the behind-the-scenes drama going on between Satan and God and their bet. Still, the story of Job is clever— the writer of Job subtly shoots down the sort of thinking that says: “All ya gotta do is pray harder.”
The amazing thing today is how many people revert to doing this, both to themselves and to others. Why is that so? I don’t have all the answers, but I think it starts with the concept that God is sort of like Santa Claus: you better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout I’m tellin’ you why . . . Santa Claus is coming to town.
It’s thinking like this—simplified cause and effect thinking—that some people tend to gravitate towards. But the Book of Job refutes that! Oh, that people would actually READ their Bibles to see what’s there instead of falling back on easy answers.
What are your thoughts to cause-and-effect thinking concerning God?
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