{"id":14189,"date":"2023-09-14T18:24:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T18:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=14189"},"modified":"2023-09-14T18:24:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T18:24:20","slug":"tonights-book-of-job-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14189\/tonights-book-of-job-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight&#8217;s Book of Job Reading: Jerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">On the way home this evening from the book of Job study, Beth and I considered the other-worldly call of God that was on Job to move beyond what Job knew to be perfection. God was calling Job out of what existed into a place that did not exist\u2014for men.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">While the book of Job does not tell us that explicitly, we understand that God was calling Job&#8217;s heart to Himself when He apparently &#8220;punished&#8221; Job for being perfect in the earthly sense.\u00a0 By God not accepting the best that Job had to offer (what God Himself had ordained to be acceptable), Job was being told in his heart that God&#8217;s approval lay further down the road with Him.\u00a0 God was calling Job, but to what?\u00a0 To where was God calling him?\u00a0 Nothing existed on the other side of that call as far as Job knew.\u00a0 Nothing beyond the experience of being perfectly obedient had ever been revealed to men!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Whew!\u00a0 What a leap of faith for Job then to say, after receiving a pummeling from God for no reason that he could see, that God would ultimately find him faultless and be pleased with him.\u00a0 That response from Job (that faith in more than Job could see) was Job answering in the affirmative God&#8217;s call upon him to &#8220;come on,&#8221; though Job could not possibly perceive where he was going!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Brother John, that unearthly situation makes\u00a0me think of your testimony about the Spirit of the Lord calling on you many times when you were younger to &#8220;come on&#8221; when you were down praying, only for you to respond,\u00a0&#8220;Come to where, Lord?\u00a0 I&#8217;m here!&#8221;\u00a0 Now we know that the call from Jesus was a call to Him\u2014and out of the religious system of Christianity.\u00a0 But at the time, you described it much like Job must have been experiencing in his heart all those years ago\u2014\u00a0a call to a place that seemingly did not exist!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Wow! What an\u00a0opportunity (and invitation) that may\u00a0lie on the other side of God&#8217;s dissatisfaction, should we ever feel it in response to our best efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I like Jerry\u2019s comments here. \u00a0I believe that happened to me when I asked God for truth (before I got your tracts). \u00a0I believed there was something right out there, and I presently did not have it, but had no clue what I was asking for at the time. The truth lay far beyond my understanding. &#8212; Gary<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, On the way home this evening from the book of Job study, Beth and I considered the other-worldly call of God that was on Job to move beyond what Job knew to be perfection. God was calling Job out of what existed into a place that did not exist\u2014for men. 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