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Shelby
Hey, this is a year in the Bible with daily grace. And you've got Shelby and Scott here. Scott, it's a big day on the Year in the Bible podcast.
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Scott
Yeah.
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Shelby
Today is the. And you reminded me of this.
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Scott
I did.
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Shelby
Because we're not recording this on the 150th day, but those of you who are listening on release day, this is the 150th day that we have been walking through scripture together.
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Scott
Big deal.
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Shelby
It's a huge deal. That is a lot of time invested. Whether you've done it perfectly or imperfectly, probably we've all done it imperfectly. Congrats on just staying committed, journeying through God's word. We're committed to continuing this journey with you, which is really exciting. We were just looking right before this at some of the reviews we've gotten, and I have to share one that was my favorite. It literally said, yeehaw. I love this show.
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Scott
That's so great.
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Shelby
So may that be an encouragement to all of us as we continue on. Yeehaw.
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Scott
That should be our reaction to God's Word.
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Shelby
Yeah, it should be. It should be. I love it. We hope that if you're enjoying, you'll also leave us a review with your favorite exclamatory phrase there for us. Okay, so we're in Job. We're looking at chapters 28 through. Through 30. Today we finished up the speeches with Job and his friends. So what's next in this book?
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Scott
Right, so we've finished up the dialogues, and so now we've got these monologues for really much of the rest of the book. These. These long speeches. And so we get a monologue from Job. We'll get one from someone we haven't met yet, Elihu, in a few chapters. And then God himself, near the end, will speak, which is a great moment. So today's chapters, though, we've got Job's. Most of Job's monologue, and chapters 29 and 30. We. We basically got. What is Job's final defense. He's not going to speak a whole lot in later chapters. Chapter 29, it's a really sad read. He's kind of reminiscing on, you know, glorious days of the past, when God was his friend, when people respected him, when the future just seemed bright. He mentions how he used to care for the oppressed, which, as the study points out, directly contradicts what Eliphaz accused Job of in chapter 22. But, you know, the past was great, but Job's present is the complete opposite, which he's lamenting, and that's what he gets into in chapter 30. Now he is mocked, not respected. God seems absent, not a friend, and just terror overwhelms him everywhere he looks.
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Shelby
Yeah, just a really brutal, honest picture of how Job's doing at this point. And even if we can't relate to all of what he said, I'm sure there's pieces of that that we all can relate to. You know, we are in chapter 28 in our reading today, and I remember when we began the Book of Job. Scott, you mentioned that the Book of Job answers this question, where is wisdom found? And that chapter 28 was going to be a key chapter for us in answering that question. So would you like to break that down for us a little bit?
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Scott
Again, that's just one of the big, big questions at the heart of Job is just where is wisdom found? And his suffering is kind of the the occasion to explore that question. There is some debate about who exactly is speaking in chapter 28. A lot of people do think this is part of Job's monologues, that he's the one speaking something. It's just kind of a narrator chiming in here. Regardless, though, it's this beautiful poem about wisdom and where to find it. And first 11 verses shows us that wisdom is not something that can just be discuss discovered. It can't be purchased. The next section goes on to say, wisdom can only be found in God alone. And you know, wisdom here we throw that word around. It's the ability to fully understand how the world works in this context. And that's a huge question in the Book of Job, like will we as God's creatures be content to live within our limits, to accept that our wisdom can only reach so far, to acknowledge that we can't know everything and simply trust God to when we don't get all the answers to our questions. And that's where the poem ends, that wisdom for human beings is to essentially acknowledge our limitations and to fear the Lord, to trust and worship him. And that reminds me of a passage in Habakkuk that I've always loved. Good old Habakkuk. God has let Habakkuk in on what his plans are for his people. And Habakkuk was just utterly bewildered by God's plans. And yet he resolves by the end of the book to just trust God no matter what happens. And Habakkuk 3, 17 and 18 says this. Habakkuk says, though the fig tree does not bud and there is no fruit on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, Though the flocks disappear from the pen and there are no herds in the stalls yet. I will celebrate in the Lord. I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. And I think embracing the perspective of job 28 equips us to adopt that same mentality Habakkuk does at the end of that book when life is hard, when it doesn't make sense, God calls us to trust him. And Scripture just proves over and over and over again that he is reliable, that we will never, ever regret putting our trust in Him.
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Shelby
Yeah, that was really beautifully said, Scott. And I'm so glad we parked on that chapter and that we're taking a deeper look at that. I think one of my takeaways for today, at times I can feel like my faith or God's Word is something that should explain to me how the world works, how my life works, instead of it being something that invites me into a relationship with my Creator, with my Savior, where I don't have all the answers, but I have this, like, living, breathing relationship from which I receive comfort, from which I receive hope. And so I think in this I'm just reminded that if we've reduced our relationship with God down to I just need answers from you, then we're missing the sweetest part of it, which is the relationship with him that is just a part of his character and not whether we have all the answers or not. And so thanks for walking us through job 2830. We've got a few more days in this book, and we're getting to some of my favorite chapters. You've been alluding to it all along, but they're coming up really quickly now, so we'll jump into that starting tomorrow.