What happens when a believer calls on God? When we are moved by faith to speak to him does not God answer? My prayer and study life is based upon the premise that God is engaged in my life. I think Job felt the same way. In 12:4 Job declares that all his life he called on God and God answered him. This demonstration of faith earned him the title of a righteous and blameless man. A title God confirms twice in the beginning of the story (1:8; 2:3). Yet Job heard what his neighbors said about him. He saw how they responded to his current situation. They laughed. They mocked. They belittled. Job was the laughing stock of the neighborhood. And that pain was equal to the physical suffering. Maybe Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar heard the same things as they travelled to Job’s house. But they did not laugh. When they saw Job they did not belittle. Their seven days of silence confirmed no desire to mock. But when Job opened his mouth they spoke harshly and without grace. Still Job would not give in to the temptation to curse God. Nothing that happened to him changed his perspective on the righteous Almighty. I need to be reminded of that truth.
Stuart
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