19th.: Job Yields
All through Job chapters 40-41, God schooled Job.
God then challenged Job to prove that he was as wise, and powerful, as God.
Job’s demurred, “I know that thou can do every thing, and that no thought can be withheld from thee.
Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that I understood not,
things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak.
I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear.
But now mine eye sees thee. Wherefore, I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” (Job 42:2-5).
Job yielded to God and His wisdom.
He no longer needed to justify himself, and his innocency.
Job realized that he was not his own.
Rather, his life belonged to God.
Per God’s instruction, Job then prayed for his friends, that God would be merciful to them for the wrongful doctrine they attributed to God in their accusations against Job (Job 42:8b,10)
Likewise, we must hold this same attitude of yielding to God, when we pray.
“… and ye are not your own. For you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” (1st Cor. 6:19d-20)