What Job really wanted was to talk with God. In his pain and grief he wanted God to answer him and yet he knew that God was far too great for him, a mere man, to contend with. “If only there were someone to mediate between us,” he said, “someone to bring us together, someone to remove God’s rod from me” (9:33-34). Many people live their whole lives feeling that God is very distant. They feel that God is just too great for them to really connect with. There is truth in this because God does indeed transcend us infinitely. And yet God has come to us. There is a mediator between God and man. The very thing that Job feels he needs is given to us in Jesus Christ. Many people say they believe in God but don’t feel the need to connect with Jesus. However, without Jesus all we have is a very remote and abstract idea of God. To actually connect with God we need Jesus. He is the bridge that closes the infinite gulf between us and God. He takes away our guilt and gives us access to God. You have access to God. So don’t be content with just a vague notion of a God who is ‘out there somewhere’. He doesn’t want to be distant from you. He paid an unfathomable price in the sacrifice of Christ so that you could have direct access to his presence. So now he calls us to come to him, to allow our hearts to be ruled by his Holy Spirit and to make our lives a conversation with him. This is possible, and it can start right now with you expressing how you feel to God.
Tell God what is on your heart right now.
Read Job 9 and 10
